2d Accelerator?


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Hi everyone Ive been doing alot of research on the gp2x hardware and software library's to get prepared to start coding when I pick up my 2x towmorrow :D. One thing that puzzles me is the hardware acceleration that seems to be available for the 2x. Is it yet to be utilized? I was looking on the magic eyes site and it seems it has high performance 2d graphics acceleration. Is this considered the blitter? If someone could explain to me a little more in depth on whats possible with the hardware and how to utilize it that would be great! Thanks!
 
As I understand it (and I could be wrong), the blitter is mainly for copying surfaces around in memory really quickly allowing you to draw more in less time to the screen. I also heard that the hardware SDL handled it for you with the right kind of surfaces.
 
So the accelerator is just the blitter or is there hardware rotation scaling support somewhere. sorry im just a little confused as theres no where I can find that explains this in detail.Thanks!
 
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