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Re: Palette setting?

To: Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>
Subject: Re: Palette setting?
From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@tubul.dascon.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:48:20 +0200
Cc: MiNT mailing list <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
In-reply-to: <Pine.MNT.3.96-MiNT.980602132818.156A-100000@bluto>; from Jo Even Skarstein on Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 01:32:08PM +0200
References: <199806012238.BAA04604@lehtori.cc.tut.fi> <Pine.MNT.3.96-MiNT.980602132818.156A-100000@bluto>

On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 01:32:08PM +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Actually, the VDI is initialized very early (before the Fuji-logo is
> drawn), so it's perfectly safe to use it from the auto-folder. It

Actually, the fuji logo is blitted by using VDI routines in newer TOS
versions :-)

> would make sense to use VDI in W as well, as that means it would work
> on all machines/graphicscards, and with hardware-acceleration etc. for
> those that have such things.

I would strongly recommend this. On machines with PCI graphics cards, you
won't get much performance when bypassing the VDI (except if you write your
own driver which uses the accelerator on the graphics card), because reading
from video ram is painfully slow on these cards.

cu
Michael
-- 
Michael Schwingen, Ahornstrasse 36, 52074 Aachen

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