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Article #20388Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
From: Warwick Allison
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:39
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:39
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leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
>It is slow because Atari STILL haven't made use of STe's hardware scrolling
>(which I assume is available on the Falcon) in TOS.
The ONLY possible use the OS could make of hardware scrolling is in the pure
TOS text mode, and even then, it would be a pretty ugly hack. One use for
the hardware scrolling is in the implementation of BigScreen emulators - which
is nothing to do with the OS, and are already available. Even the ST can use
the bigscreen emulator, although only the 640xH modes are useful, and scrolling
is in 1280-byte chunks (ie. ie. 5 * 256 bytes = 16 line mono / 8 lines colour)
> The funny thing is that Atari recently complained about games programmers
>not using the facilities of the STe.
... and then didn't put all those features in the TT!!! Never mind, the Falcon
should be more attractive for developers.
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Warwick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ?? Message-ID: <11053@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 16 Nov 92 00:39:19 GMT References: <BxIB4y.3qq@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1dprp3INN9rg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov11.040149.6428@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> <1992Nov12.120947.7843@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 28