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Re: Second Sight again...

Todd P. Whitesel (toddpw@pride.ugcs.caltech.edu) wrote:
: philip@labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens) writes:

: >  I strongly suspect that the Second Sight would be perfectly capable of
: >emulating fill mode with an approapiate change to the firmware.  Remember that
: >the shadowing of GS modes is largely a function of the on-board Z180 running a
: >program.

: Yes, and depending on how that program works, fill mode is either fairly easy
: to implement or it's a nightmare. Jawaid?

  It would be pretty gross. :)  The SHR emulation code scans the frame
buffer backwards (you don't want to know), which makes it virtually
impossible to check for 0 bytes _after_ a color.

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