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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.091140.15163@ncsu.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 09:11:40 GMT
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In <1991Jun10.065129.4135@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
 rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

[Most deleted.  Go read it if you need to refresh your memory ;-).
 Personally I'm weary of people including every unrelated line and even
 huge signatures (for goodness sake!) from several previous articles.
 PS: Ray, I'm talking about other msgs, not yours.]

>  No, I think DIG could be fairly fast if some assumptions are made
> to trade flexibility for speed. Like assuming planes are in bitplane
> format, assuming the video card has a data mover (blitter) or 
> an onboard processor with some microkernal calls for communication
> between the Amiga and display board. 

Okay.  I don't think we're in disagreement over what can/can't be done;
but we're obviously thinking of different targets to do it _with_ <grin>.

Certainly, assuming a certain format plus some intelligence on a video
card adds up to easy and fast "DIG" (especially if there's also easy
access to its video ram in a predefined manner).

However, for my view, I'm thinking of those who'd like to see true DIG
available even for such cards as HAM-E, DCTV, FC24, CB, ULowell, etc...
which have radically different data interface methods.

cheers - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>