Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!ames!vsi1!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Lemmings - a tutorial Part V (last) Distribution: world References: <23788@well.sf.ca.us> <23837@well.sf.ca.us> <781@tnc.UUCP> <2149@pdxgate.UUCP> <91089.200133DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> <2162@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 1 Apr 91 09:46:23 PST Organization: Amiga makes it possible In article <2162@pdxgate.UUCP> bairds@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Shawn L. Baird) writes: >DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes: > >>In article <2149@pdxgate.UUCP>, bairds@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Shawn L. Baird) says: > >>That example doesn't help your point. CED uses blitting which is many many >>times slower than using the copper to aid scrolling. But it has no choice >>in order to remain Intuition compatible. > >The point was fast blitting. It is rather unreasonable for an editor such >as CED to waste its memory holding a bitmap version of the text. Also, CED >doesn't scroll an entire viewport at once. Otherwise the scrollbar at the >left would be a bad placement. > >>-- Dan Babcock > >--- > Shawn L. Baird, bairds@eecs.ee.pdx.edu, Wraith on DikuMUD > The above message is not licensed by AT&T, or at least, not yet. Would you believe he's using PrintIText()? Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- ******************************************************** * Appendix A of the Amiga Hardware Manual tells you * * everything you need to know to take full advantage * * of the power of the Amiga. And it is only 10 pages! * ********************************************************