[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Super Bitmaps, Super Agnus

mab@druwy.ATT.COM (Alan Bland) (12/22/89)

I'm working on a program that uses varying sizes of superbitmaps,
and I would like it to take advantage of the larger (2K?) superbitmaps
available with the ECS, as well as working on non-ECS Amigas.
Is there a way for a program to determine if superbitmaps larger
than 1024 x 1024 are supported on a given Amiga?  When the user selects
an option that requires a larger superbitmap, I would like to give a
reasonably friendly error message rather than crashing or producing other
weird results.  I don't currently have any of the ECS chips (not even Super
Agnus) but I would like the program to work without change on Amigas
equipped with ECS.

Thanks,
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