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From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
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Subject: Re: Plea for help
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Date: 19 Jan 91 09:56:09 GMT
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> And the Amiga has a hardware blitter
> that lets you run pre-computed screens at 30-60fps..

What kind of precomputed screens?  Do you mean previously created
delta animations?  Would those be useful in a changing VR display?

> I don't understand this idea of using machines w/o hardware
> graphics support for graphics...

And I don't understand the magical qualities people _always_ assign
to blitters :-).

Most amiga anims don't use it.  Still, a 68030 amiga would be a great
choice for low color res VR...  the cpu can often be faster than the
blitter for drawing. - kevin