The Amiga's Blitter actually has line [1] and polygon fill [2] modes. Obviously this does require code to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra hardware.

The Amiga's Blitter actually has line [1] and polygon fill [2] modes. Obviously this does require code to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra hardware. On a CPU > 68000 the tradeooff between CPu and blitter is different [3] [1] http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node0128.html http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui... [2] http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node0122.html http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui... [3] http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=50815 http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=50815