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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: The FALCON - too slow ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.115645.24649@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <1992Nov12.120947.7843@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <annius.721647206@freyr> <Bxnnpq.D3C@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:56:45 GMT
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- In article <Bxnnpq.D3C@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer) writes:
- >just the ability to scroll the screen LEFT or RIGHT in steps of one pixel, which was
- >completely impossible on the "normal" ST (unless you'd like to write a program and
- >bit-shift it on your own). The UP / DOWN scrolling (ok, ok there's only upscrolling
- >in GEMDOS output) can only be done by some kinda program (or the blitter perhaps), but
- >in every case a tremendous amount of memory has got to be shiftet. Just a little math:
- >(taken from a PC clone) When you're running 1024 * 768 pixels in 256 colours you've
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- Could you try to remember that most of us are using 80 column terminals, not
- VGA?
- And read my other posting - the STe does have hardware vertical scrolling.
-
- - Leo.
-