50th Anniversary of Bitblt
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bitblt, a significant graphics operation.
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Also XScreensaver's Blitspin hack: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n201/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtcwb-UWW8
It will copy any image, irrespective of the copyright owners' desire.
*copyright infringement.
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