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Originally Posted by Old_Bob
Interesting to read, this. As well as being more than a bit infuriating.
If I was present, I'd certainly suggest that some kind of blitter-like functionality would be preferred. With a bunch of pointer registers for each bitplane, along with maybe a modulo value for each and a BLTSIZE type register to set the thing in motion with no further intervention from the CPU being needed from that point.
I guess that might be a much more complicated thing to design, but presumably within the limits of the possible for these people to create?
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I assume the engineers were looking at it more as "what can we add to solve the problem without altering any of the existing chipset" - if it couldn't fit inside the spare space in Akiko, they weren't going to be able to deliver it