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Article #20398Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
From: Leo Hendry
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56
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In article <Bxnnpq.D3C@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer) writes: >just the ability to scroll the screen LEFT or RIGHT in steps of one pixel, which was >completely impossible on the "normal" ST (unless you'd like to write a program and >bit-shift it on your own). The UP / DOWN scrolling (ok, ok there's only upscrolling >in GEMDOS output) can only be done by some kinda program (or the blitter perhaps), but >in every case a tremendous amount of memory has got to be shiftet. Just a little math: >(taken from a PC clone) When you're running 1024 * 768 pixels in 256 colours you've Could you try to remember that most of us are using 80 column terminals, not VGA? And read my other posting - the STe does have hardware vertical scrolling. - Leo.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!dcs.warwick.ac.uk!leo From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ?? Message-ID: <1992Nov16.115645.24649@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: news@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: stone Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England References: <1992Nov12.120947.7843@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <annius.721647206@freyr> <Bxnnpq.D3C@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56:45 GMT Lines: 13