Re: Blitter and graphics performance

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From: shap
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1987 00:02

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In article <1353@husc6.UUCP>, hadeishi@husc7.UUCP writes:
> 
> 	I just realized that the Mac II does not have a blitter.
> Can individual video cards have blitters? 
> 
> 			-Mitsu

You ought to be able to add one. It would involve putting in an init
resource that would swap out the references to the normal line/dot/area
drawing routines and replacing the bottom routines with routines of your
own. Tricky, but it should be possible.

Jon

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Subject: Re: Blitter and graphics performance
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 19:02:18 EST
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Summary: should be able to add a blitter

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