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Offline reticuli

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Re: A Place in History
« on: January 13, 2005, 10:46:09 PM »
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Azryl wrote:

ability to 'show' more than one resolution on screen at a time? mix 640/512/interlace as well as 320/256 PAL etc



Actually, this was nothing new. You could display more than one resolution on the screen with Atari's old 8-bit range (400/800/XL/XE) - which, incidentally, the legendary Jay Miner also worked on :-)

In many ways the old Atari's programmable DLI's (Display List Interupts) were a forerunner to the Amiga's Copper.

A lot of the programs I wrote for the Atari 8-bit took advantage of DLI's.
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