[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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