Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!ritcv!ajy2208 From: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: QuickST/TurboST/Blitter Message-ID: <1282@cs.rit.edu> Date: 11 Sep 89 16:22:30 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.rit.edu Reply-To: ajy2208%ritcv@cs.rit.edu (Albert Yarusso) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 22 In article larserio@ifi.uio.no (LarsErikOsterud) writes: >I agree !!! >Quick-ST gives a BIOS text increase of 500% >The only thing the blitter gives is a GEM draw increase og about 5% >(yes, I've tried it myself !!) > Version 1.6 of Turbo ST speeds up BIOS text by 1400% (!).. A friend of mine has a Mega ST and there are only a few instances where we've the blitter has been useful, but not useful enough to obtain if you don't have a Mega ST. For example, in Degas Elite moving blocks and drawing with blocks is tremendously faster with the blitter on. Also, we've noticed speed increases in some demos (but not many). > Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ > Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / >____________/ _______________________/ ____/ / __________________________________________________________________________ Albert Yarusso | ajy2208@ritvax.bitnet Rochester Institute of Tech. | {rutgers, ames}!rochester!ritcv!ajy2208 Computer Science | ajy2208@ritcv.cs.rit.edu