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Article #1990Re: 4096 Hires
From: Aaron Avery
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 06:44
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1989 06:44
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In article <4463@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>This is the same kludge they use to get 256 colors on the ST. Me, I'll have
>none of it. The should be able to increase the quantization a little and do
>all the processing in the copper (maybe every 3 or 4 scan lines) without
>chewing up the whole CPU.
Peter,
It's not all that simple to "increase the quantization a little".
Using the copper to do this "kludge" also chews up the CPU pretty well, since
it steals all of its cycles from the CPU.
- Aaron
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!aaron From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 4096 Hires Message-ID: <955@madnix.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 89 06:44:48 GMT References: <4801@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <11906@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <4463@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery) Organization: ASDG Incorporated Lines: 20