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Article #6772Re: STE vs ST Shifter
From: Jim Tittsler
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 03:29
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 03:29
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neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) writes: >I'm not bothered about SHIFTER, it's MMU I want replaced. No palette changes >just better hardware scrolling. The scrolling features required revisions to both the MCU (since if you are not word-aligned you need to send (at least) one more set of words to the shifter per line) and the Shifter (so it could decide which pixel of the word to start on). Neither the STe shifter nor the new combined MCU/Glue can be directly plugged into an ST. Jim Tittsler, Systems Engineer (and alleged hardware type), Atari Corp.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!jwt From: jwt@atari.UUCP (Jim Tittsler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: STE vs ST Shifter Keywords: DAC, STE, Shifter Message-ID: <1873@atari.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 89 03:29:41 GMT References: <20157@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <3868@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 13