[Coco] Wordpak

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Mon Jul 14 23:56:31 EDT 2008


Chuck Youse wrote:

> Strangely enough, few driver writers use the origin registers to scroll
> the display.  Even the PC/XT BIOS (and as a result, all following
> generations of PC-compatible crap) ignores this obvious optimization.

I shake my head in wonder then.

I know the BBC Micro did a proper job of it (scrolling) though!

Regards,

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|              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it
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