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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: expanded workbench
Message-ID: <1156@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 15:30:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  1 15:30:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 22:46:52 EST
Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
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Matt Dillon writes:

> 	Hey! I think it's really neat that something like this hack to
> increase the size of the workbench window can come along and be totally
> compatible!  Another reason I'm so excited about the program is due both to
> the simplicity of it, and the fact that the Video Hardware and the OS are
> flexable enough to be able to handle it trivialy.  Just try doing that on
> an Atari or Mac!

Actually, the Mac's software is not only able to support screen sizes
different than the standard configuration, it can even support
non-rectangular bitmaps for its display (witness the Radius full-page
display for the Mac and the number of programs that run on it without
complaint).  The folks who wrote the Mac ROMS did write the code for
clipping and region handling very well.  Of course, you are correct
about the Amiga video hardware being adaptable enough to expand its
screen size.  But the Atari 8-bits can do that too (through some
display list modification and setting a DMA control register).

				--M

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