🚀 go-pugleaf

I have been writing some nice GEM applications in O.S.S. Personal Pascal,
and I like the package a lot.  However, there is one glaring fault in the
GEM support:  There is no way to access the blit routines (I think it's
called RASTEROP in the DRI documentation.)  Can anyone suggest a decent
way to scroll the contents of a window in some other way, or give me a
way to access these routines?  Does anyone know if version 2 of P.P. will
include support for these routines?  It's kind of impossible to do anything
with text with the current release because there is no way to move the
contents of a window other than redrawing the whole thing. (s--l--o--w!)
   One other thing, the overheating 1040's must be a problem that only
happens to some machines.  After reading about it, I left mine on for 5
days with no problems-- the top of the machine didn't feel particularly hot,
even.  And I have done some heavy disk copying (>15 disks), with no
meltdowns [or even mild radiation leaks  :-) ]
      ---Michael P . Cohan   (just your basic UMass computer science
                              student)
 MPCOHAN%UMASS.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA    (I hope!)
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