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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS friendly part II
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 11:17:25 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4cqqvl$kjs@serpens.rhein.de>
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- fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
-
- >bad drivers are the reason why we got to talk instead
-
- No. bad drivers are your poor excuse to hack around.
-
- >just using loadview or scroolvport, both v1.2 available btw
- >(V1.2 will only do vertival scrolling, right ? lets use
- >vertical oversized bitmaps. what about overscan...).
-
- This is not correct.
-
- >The aim is not just clean software, but clean software still running
- >quick on most gfx-cards.
-
- Right. This means that you can't have some functionality as it
- is not supported by the cards drivers.
-
- >: Slows down ? It probably freezes the machine if the task calling
- >: WaitTOF() has a high enough priority.
-
- >even worse. so no waittof.
-
- Read what I wrote about WaitTOF(). Your statement is like "the OS
- function could stop the earth from rotating, so I can't use it".
- This is ridiculous and you sound like a fool.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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