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From: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PVA beats MACII
Message-ID: <1966@dino.ulowell.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 03:19:16 GMT
References: <37323R38@PSUVM> <1962@dino.ulowell.edu> <7254@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner)
Organization: University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.
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In article <7254@ames.arpa> (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>In article <1962@dino.ulowell.edu> miner@dino.ulowell.edu (Rich Miner) writes:
>> Anyone have a portable, retargetable graphics.library ?
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Just wait til 1.4 (1.5? 1.XXX). Such a beast is in the works "reported a
>highly placed Amigazoid source" at a BAADGE meeting from a few months ago.
>I can't name the source, but he answers to "duck".

I have talked to Dale about the graphics libraries, and his ideas for hooks to 
make them more extensible.  I am under the impression that current work loads
have moved this work into the not yet scheduled future.  Additionally, we need
access at a higher level then the previously discussed bliter hooks (i.e. to
take advantage of hardware ellipse capabilities).  Finally, since we will have
hardware RSN I need another solution.

We will probably implement a low-level driver for the board and an X-V11
driver.  This can tie into Dales X implementation and provide quickly 
demonstratable applications.  Comments?  

Having a compatible graphics.library for our card is still the long term goal.
This would, however, require an aggressive top-down attack.


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