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- From: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What's the story on CPUBlit & 3.0?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.170218.24292@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:02:18 GMT
- References: <petter.09uh@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org> <OD.6BadNetOA92-901-231p0_55b2ce0b@piraya.bad.se> <kkrebs.06li@amilink.UUCP>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs) writes:
- >Probably not. KS 3.0 has introduced new interleaved screens to prevent
- >flicker and CPUBlit does not recognize it as a "normal" mode. Anyone know
- >if the author of CPUBlit is ever going to update it? It's a wonderful
- >piece of software!
-
- Thanks :-) Yes, you're exactly right; KS 3.0 graphics.library sets some
- flags in the bitmap header which will cause CpuBlit to stay away from it
- by default.
-
- Since the existing version can be made to work via the -b option, I've no
- plans to update it at the moment. Maybe when the RTG version of AmigaDOS
- appears, it will cause more problems and encourage me to get back to work
- on it. At the moment though, I've too many other projects in hand.
-
- Eddy
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- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until you've
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