From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Jul 9 02:04:01 2010 Message-ID: <8D2943E0ADFF4C838E87292C72E2F84A@mercatus.local> From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: "MiNT Mailingliste" 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> <20100708223029.A20680@mbernstein.de> In-Reply-To: <20100708223029.A20680@mbernstein.de> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:02:12 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 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: -------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Bernstein" Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:30 PM To: "MiNT Mailingliste" Subject: Re: [MiNT] Bit-Depth and Graphics stuff.... >> To be honest, it's not even a good idea in palette modes, because >> performance is just horrible. > > You are right if you point out, that this way consumes some CPU power. That is only true when using 8 bit chunky mode, which very few does. In most cases, 8 bit and less is bitplane graphics, and converting a Device Independent Format bitmap to screen format in these cases is a straight forward copy operation. > But it is the clean way and will work with every hardware. Exactly. Jo Even