• A blitter is a circuit, sometimes as a coprocessor or a logic block on a microprocessor, dedicated to the rapid movement and modification of data within...
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  • A Bob (contraction of Blitter object) is a graphical element (GEL) used by the Amiga computer. Bobs are hardware sprite-like objects, movable on the screen...
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    complicated priority system. Agnus includes sub-components known as the blitter (fast transfer of data in memory without the intervention of the processor)...
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    all OCS chipset. The Blitter and Copper are also contained here. Agnus features: The Blitter, a bitmap manipulator. The Blitter is capable of copying...
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    fewer in higher resolutions), genlock support, and a blitter coprocessor (stylized as "BLiTTER") which can quickly move large blocks of data (particularly...
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    2084, Joust, Sinistar, and Bubbles, all released in 1982, contain custom blitter chips for operating on 16-color bitmaps. In 1984, Hitachi released ARTC...
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  • significant bandwidth is wasted during register accesses and copper and blitter operations. Also the lack of a chunky graphics mode is a speed impediment...
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  • AA+ Chipset (section Blitter)
    A 2x blitter performance over AGA/ECS one was promised, however Commodore never mentioned that AA+ had 32-bit blitter like AAA, so AA+ blitter would...
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    Translator (DAT). Further aid to the programmer comes in the form of a bit-blitter, which supports Copy (up,down,invert), Fill, Swap, Mix (boolean Minterms)...
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    liquid-crystal display. Powered by a 4 MHz 65C02 8-bit CPU and a custom 16-bit blitter, the Lynx was more advanced than Nintendo's monochrome Game Boy, released...
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