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Originally Posted by alpine9000
As for the blitter ownership, I am not really sure about this either as I just used Photon's startup code which doesn't do it. I had read in HowToCode5.txt they recommend you Own/Disown blitter but as it seemed to work fine without it I didn't add it in. I wonder if it's possible you only need to OwnBlitter if you leave process scheduling enabled ? |
The reason for 'owning' the blitter is, that the os could be in the process of setting up a blit just as you disable everything. This could cause the blit to go haywire once you enable everything again, because you probably modified some registers.