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    12-Jan-86 10:08:40
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Fm: Jez San @ Argonaut S/W 72247,3661
To: Dave Adair 72277,363

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68000 can clear a word every half a microsecond. blitter can do it at least twice as fast, I believe. Probably more. No, you can't just clear the bitplanes onscreen to draw a new polygon, because you don't want to lose the existing data that was underneath your new polygon.. ie: there may have been 10 other polygons underneath, and you want them to still be there!