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11-Jan-86 23:09:04
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Fm: TIM JENISON 71515,710
To: Jez San @ Argonaut S/W 72247,3661
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Yes, I am *painfully* aware of the proceedure for filling. My point was that
the 68k can't hope to compete. By carefully choosing your colors and planes,
in a specific application, (like a game) you could restrict changes to 1 or 2
planes. It's hard to see how else the (they) could implement a fast fill in
hardware, without the complexity of another entire microprocessor. I'm very
impressed with Miner's approach! That blitter is better than the original
smalltalk bitblit. does everything and more! the original bitblit only had, I
think, 8 possible operations. (Is that right? I think so!) So, anyway, where
can I read about incremental fills?