Accelerated Graphic Cards: Difference between revisions

 

* Hardware mouse cursor, drawn and managed (e.g. you provide coordinates, the card does the rest)

* Tiles. You enter a small NxN dataset (usually a bitmap of between 8x8 and 32x32), a foreground color and a mixing style plus some coordinates and the card "paints" the area with the given pattern. That can be handy to render Win95-like backgrounds (tiled ones) or even to draw fonts quickly.