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Blitter

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Introduction

Blitter is a virtual device that copies data (pixels) very fast from one memory area to another.

Surface descriptors

Transparency is handled by color code 0 by default.

1-bit

2-bit

4-bit

8-bit

32-bit

Blitting

When blitting, everything is treated like ending up on an 32-bit surface, e.g. ...