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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIgs Animation
Message-ID: <5173@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 89 19:03:52 GMT
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In article <32331@apple.Apple.COM> farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:
>In article <8906080857.AA21986@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-simasd!pro-avalon!jstich@nosc.mil writes:
>>I've thought that the best way to approach the problem would be to load a
>>picture into memory (created with any paint program) and then copy the figures
>>to the screen. Am I totally barking up the wrong tree here?
>
>	I am told that the fastest way to copy the figures to the screen...
>	.. involves setting the stack pointer to the beginning of graphics
>	 memory
Of course, only an Apple //GS or other 65802/65816-based system can do this,
so it's suprising to see this advocated by someone at Apple :-)

Any chance that Apple will start supplying 65802's in their 8-bit machines?

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