From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jul 7 17:00:18 2010 Message-ID: <4C34EA7A.1040007@online.no> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:58:34 +0200 From: Jo Even Skarstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100527 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... References: <2d64e795294918b05c6ec6ea3bc731b7-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYPXkF0A1Y6XF1YSUYAWVNeQw==-webmailer2@server08.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <6BF9B6DD-38A2-4874-8D8C-10EE1E99E6DD@gmail.com> <1BCB0F08-DCCB-423A-B4E1-CCDB279C6B83@gmail.com> <6dbce3cf64caf9c3441739836652cad8-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUBFBDBTXF5bVkYMXUF0BVM6XF1YSUADWl9cQw==-webmailer2@server05.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <4C34C2E4.5080909@online.no> <3847624A-0252-410C-B103-5BA7AAE195E0@gmail.com> <20100707210040.cdf8cdd2.mandin.patrice@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <20100707210040.cdf8cdd2.mandin.patrice@orange.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: 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