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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Query re: text scrolling in windows; text mode
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 12:30:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 12:30:22 1987
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If you go through the normal GEMDOS console output calls, it emulates
a VT52 terminal, which, true to form, scrolls the entire screen at once (and
they evidently didn't put scrolling regions into their emulation).

But if you go through the VDI, it doesn't emulate anything, so you must handle
scrolling yourself.

And slow scrolling/character update is the bane of any completely graphics
oriented computer, Macintosh, Amiga, ST... any of them. I would have
appreciated a text mode.
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