Re: Nova Card and Papurys and Cab

From: Magnus Kollberg <Magnus.Kollberg_at_emw.ericsson.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:45:38 +0200

> >The _only_ safe mode is to use the mode "serialized" of the
> >Toolkit. Any other mode will crash in some hardware accesses.
> >
>
> How does the overall performance rate? - I remain tempted by a Nova if only
> to speed scrolling in high colour modes.

Well I do not have a Nova, yet, but if it's just plain text it would scroll
as fast as in mono on a regular falcon in any colour mode. Maybe not quite
but almost.

If it's a graphics program it might not that fast as it has to copy the new
data to the graphics card and that takes time. On the other hand, the blitting
is very fast so it should still be pretty fast.

I guess someone who has got an Nova card can answer better than me.

//Magnus Kollberg
Received on ti. okt. 21 1997 - 11:20:00 CEST