darkstar@milton.u.washington.edu (Alden Hackmann) (06/01/91)
We are the very new (3 days) owners of an Atari 1040 STe. There is a toggle on the options menu for something called Blitter. The little manual has no reference to it at all. Can anyone enlighten us as to the meaning of this option? Thank you very much Alden F.M. Hackmann darkstar@milton.u.washington.edu "Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."
gerloff@cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff) (06/03/91)
In article <1991May31.170349.15843@milton.u.washington.edu>, darkstar@milton.u.washington.edu (Alden Hackmann) writes: |> We are the very new (3 days) owners of an Atari 1040 STe. |> There is a toggle on the options menu for something called Blitter. |> The little manual has no reference to it at all. Can anyone enlighten |> us as to the meaning of this option? |> |> Thank you very much |> |> Alden F.M. Hackmann |> darkstar@milton.u.washington.edu |> |> "Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world." The Blitter is a kind of coprocessor for graphics. If you move a window on the screen or a dialog box will be drawn, then you must transfer a bit of memory from on memory location to another. This on can faster be done from the Blitter than from the 68000. The name stands for BitBlt chip. In the ST is a Line-A Routine called BitBlt. If you switch on the Blitter entry in the desktop, then this routine programms the Blitter. If you don't set that switch the routine will emulate the function of the Blitter in software. Greetings, Olaf -- ****************************************************************************** * Olaf Gerloff * Internet: GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de * * Technical University Berlin (FRG)* or gerloff@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de * * Department of Computer Science * BITNET : GERLOFF@DB0TUI11 * * Computerbased Informationsystems * Usenet : ...!mcsun!unido!opal!gerloff * ****************************************************************************** * Impossible things will be executed immediately, * * miracles take a little longer! * ******************************************************************************
mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Michel Forget) (06/07/91)
darkstar@milton.u.washington.edu (Alden Hackmann) writes: > We are the very new (3 days) owners of an Atari 1040 STe. > There is a toggle on the options menu for something called Blitter. > The little manual has no reference to it at all. Can anyone enlighten > us as to the meaning of this option? > If you can select the "Blitter" option, do so. It is a special graphic chip inside the machine that allows it to do Hardware Scrolling. It makes for faster, smoother scrolling. I'm not sure about the other capabilities. It is better than the standard, though, so use it if you can. << ---------------------------------- >> << ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca >> << mforget@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca >> << Michel Forget >> << ---------------------------------- >>