Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Testing Blitter chips Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 13:44:41 GMT References: <57346@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@laas.laas.fr Reply-To: ralph@laas.fr Organization: LAAS-CNRS France Lines: 19 In-reply-to: darekm@microsoft.UUCP's message of 12 Sep 90 02:45:19 GMT In article <57346@microsoft.UUCP> darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA) writes: | Blitter support for faster screen scrolling, and it now checks the | status of the blitter chip to see if it is disabled. This allows Quick | ST 2.2 to run on machines with defective blitter chips. This got me to thinking...! Is there a PD blitter workout program that thouroughly tests out the blitter? Soon, my Mega 4 ST will be back from repair and it *will* now have a Blitter in it. Maybe Quick Index would test it out enough. Any suggestions, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News #13,78