Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff....

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On 07/07/2010 09:00 PM, Patrice Mandin wrote:

> - Device dependent format:
> in this case you must know the format completely (bitplanes, chunky,
> bits organization in true colour), and this is what I use in SDL. This
> requires much less operations for the VDI, but a bit more for the
> application. The app needs to write the data precisely in the screen
> format.

And when new hardware appears you might have to modifiy a lot of
applications. I understand the need for fast software, but putting
hardware dependancy into applications is just plain wrong. It's a
dilemma. SDL needs to be very efficient to be usable on our computers.

Jo Even