Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bbn!rochester!udel!toffee!boutell From: boutell@toffee.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: Atari Portfolio Message-ID: <8517@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 17 Jan 90 20:49:45 GMT References: <7696@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <12613@udenva.cair.du.edu> <16729@cc.usu.edu> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: boutell@freezer.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) Organization: University of Delaware -- 040 Smith Sun Lab Lines: 24 In article <16729@cc.usu.edu> SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) writes: >In article <12613@udenva.cair.du.edu>, news@udenva.cair.du.edu (netnews) writes: >> In article <7696@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> butcher@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu.UCSD.EDU (David Butcher (Ugrad_Guest_FB)) writes: >>> It comes with no graphics capabilities... >> >> Agreed. >> > >DISAGREED! If you use BIOS calls and don't try to write the damn screen >memory directly, you can do graphics all you want. > Oh come on! You're right to correct his statement that there are no graphics capabilities, if it does indeed have some, but doing graphics by direct screen writing is a given and the world knows it. You just CAN'T get effective graphics done by calling biossetpixel!!! Not unless you don't mind waiting... a.... very... long... time. Essentially, if it won't effectively run standard graphics software, it might as well have NO graphics capabilities for the non- programmer. "It is sometimes necessary to go a long way out of one's way to come back a short distance correctly." - Edward Albee "The average price of leechee nuts in Guatemala is the price of your soul!" - Theatresports Troupe, West End