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- John Sheehy (jsheehy@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Nathanael J Henderson <nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu> wrote:
- : >
- : > All this talk of fps reminds me of a little 'Pong' type game I cobbled
- : >together once upon a time. Darn thing got roughly 700 fps! :-)
-
- : No, it didn't get 700 fps, it got it's display memory written to at that
- : rate.
-
- Obviously not. :-) (Seeing as my monitor only refreshes at 72 hz, it
- would be rather difficult for the display to update that often. :-)
-
- : My examples were *updated* at those number of frames per second, and
- : they had pretty close to full frame deltas. I don't see the relevance of
- : your pong clone to this.
-
- What relevance did it have? WHAT RELEVANCE DID IT HAVE?!?
- Uhh...absolutely none actually. Just a random thought. (Perhaps you
- have to be a programmer to find programs that try to update their
- displays hundreds of times a second funny.... :-) <shrug> Geek humour.)
-
- ----
- "I was practically naked, dressed as a dominatrix and was slapping the
- audience with this huge rubber dick I was carrying. (Bill Gates)
- wandered by, so I started screaming 'Serve Me! Serve Me!' and put the
- dick on his shoulder--at which point, he emitted a mouse-like squeal and
- ran away. It was quite a scene." Slymenstra (GWAR)
-