Commodore Amiga - Chapter 6 BLITTER HARDWARE; Introduction

Chapter 6
BLITTER HARDW" ARE
Introduction
The blitter is a high-performance graphics engine that uses up to four DMA channels.
The operations it performs after a set-up of its registers are considerably faster than
those performed by the 68000.
The blitter can be used for data copying. It includes
features
to facilitate copying and processing of "rectangular" regions of memory. Typi-
cally, these regions are areas within graphics images.
The blitter also does .line drawing.
The process of performing a blitter operation is sometimes called a blit.
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