Re: [gtk-list] Re: Q's: Animation & GTK Markup Language

[raster redhat com]

On 10 Apr, Michael Beach shouted:
->  Derek Simkowiak wrote:
->  > 
->  > > ->    The Amiga was incredible at that sort of thing.
->  > >
->  > > yup. Why is it everyone compares to "what micorsoft windows does" or
->  > 
->  >         My favorite was being able to "drag" down an entire
->  > desktop/program, and seeing the other desktop/apps behind it.  The
->  > animation was oh so smooth...  and that was just my 256K Amiga 1000!
->  > 
->  
->  Well naturally it was smooth, as there was no blitting at all behind it.
->  It was simply a case of changing the registers that the refresh hardware
->  used to find the video memory at the appropriate scanline, because as I
->  recall there was no problem dragging down a screen to expose another
->  screen running in a different video mode behind it.

yes.. all thanx to the joyous copper chip that had its clock synced to
the electron gun... :) (okya.. the pixel clock or whatever you want to
call it... it was effectively the electron gun)

->  But yes, it was way cool.
->  
->  Regards
->  M.Beach
->  

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