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In article <5021@zen.berkeley.edu>, c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young (WHY)) writes:
> 	I believe  someone mentioned  recently that  they purchased the
> 	Spectrum  512 program?   Could this same  person please comment
> 	on whether  there is  any appreciable  slowing of  the machine?
> 	I've played with DEGAS Elite somewhat, and even that's a little
> 	slow at times.  If Spectrum indeed has most of DEGAS's features,
> 	as the ad claims, then is it also as slow, or slower?

I wasn't the person who commented, but I just got Spectrum 512 and love
it.  All those colours! Some operations are slower than the other
programs, but they are justified.  For example, copying a block from the
buffer to the screen is slower, but they have a lot of work to do to
merge the pallettes of the two pictures.  The manual says that about 80%
of the cpu time is taken by the pallette switches.  During some
intensive operations, such as anti-aliasing, the program gives up the
pallette switching to provide faster computation.  During this time, the
screen looks like garbage. Actual drawing speed is good. Rubber-band lines
keep up with the mouse, no problem. I have no complaints.

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