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From: SYSPMZT@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Blitter Question
Message-ID: <91139.043620SYSPMZT@GECRDVM1.BITNET>
Date: 19 May 91 08:36:20 GMT
Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development
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I must have missed this one (probably about a thousand times), but my new
1040 STe has a 'Blitter' entry on the option screen, which was unchecked
when I booted with the ST language disk.  I set it on (saving my preferences),
and noticed that the graphics did indeed speed up considerably.  Can someone
explain what the blitter is all about, and why I need to turn it on?  My
impression was that the blitter was a constant piece of the environment; that
is, that it was in the hardware and would always affect the graphics manager.

Thanks,
       Phil Z