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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JrComm 1.0
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Date: 20 Jul 90 21:48:51 GMT
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In article <2610@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>This is due to a limitation in the blitter. It can only blit so much at a time,
>and in a large bitplane screen, it does the screen a couple bitplanes at a time
>which you see as color flicker.
     Q: How about, instead of scrolling, say, two of four complete screen
bitplanes at a time, scrolling four bitplanes for half the screen each time?
You'd have a momentarily duplicated line, but it's a lot cheaper than double-
buffering, no?
                                                           - R'ykandar.
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