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From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BlitzFonts query reply
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 16:10:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 16:10:10 1987
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In article <8705130700.AA24705@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>> What is BlitzFonts?  You mentioned using it to make text scroll faster...
>>That's exactly what it is ... a program that "hooks" itself into AmigaDOS
>>(the console.device ?) that speeds up the display of text output.  I dunno
>
>	Definately not the console device.
Correct.  Blitzfonts is of the class of programs that are easy to write
once you think of it.  Ready ?  (Individual details may vary :-)
It replaces the Text() vector of the graphics.library with a version of Text() t
hat does not handle proportional fonts (so you get to use multiply*8), doesn't
have progromatic styles, kerning (positive or negative), and frequently
uses the processor to spit out the bits, rather than the blitter.

(You could use the blitter and go still faster, I think, but most 
implementations I've seen don't use it.  Or if they do, they avoid
the normal blitter calls, as demoed by my WatchBlit program)

Got it ?

			andy
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