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From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 4096 Hires
Message-ID: <955@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 89 06:44:48 GMT
References: <4801@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <11906@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <4463@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <4463@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>This is the same kludge they use to get 256 colors on the ST. Me, I'll have
>none of it. The should be able to increase the quantization a little and do
>all the processing in the copper (maybe every 3 or 4 scan lines) without
>chewing up the whole CPU.

Peter,

It's not all that simple to "increase the quantization a little".

Using the copper to do this "kludge" also chews up the CPU pretty well, since
it steals all of its cycles from the CPU.

- Aaron

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Aaron Avery, ASDG Inc.         "A mime is a terrible thing to waste."
                                                             -- Robin Williams
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