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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Line A Considered Harmful (was Re: Closing AES boxes interfering with VDI drawing)
Message-ID: <13510006@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 19:06:09 GMT
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re: LINEA considered harmful

I've been unable to find all the relevant postings on this topic, maybe they
didn't all make it here. The gist of it seems to be that the TT doesn't
support the linea functions so any programs that use them directly will
automatically not work on the TT. I hope that's an accurate summary.
If not, I'm sure you all will let me know about it! :-)

Well, last night I finally got around to reading my Neodesk 3 upgrade manual
(as opposed to gleefully playing with the program). There's a nice big
paragraph in there about how Neodesk 3.0 bypasses the horrendously slow VDI
functions and makes use of the quick linea functions instead. But wait 
a sec, Neodesk 3 runs on a TT! Something here does not add up. (Not to 
mention that I doubt Gribnif would head down the linea path if it was 
going to be obsolete.)

Well, one other point of commentary. I *still* find incompatibilities with
the software blitter I use, and I have the latest version. So sometimes I
must turn it off. I'm glad Neodesk stays nice and snappy when the software
blitter isn't there.

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