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Re: QuickDraw or No???
On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Frogboyz wrote:
> Certain Macintosh programs allow direct writes to video hardware,
> bypassing Quickdraw, and it is supposed to improve speed. I don't
> know whether or not this is recommended under Executor. Any ideas?
These applications work under Executor. I believe there is a switch or
text field in the preferences (Cmd-Shift-5) panel that has to do with
detecting and handling apps that bypass QuickDraw. I should warn you
though that performance for these apps is poor, especially in X windows
based systems. Under E/DOS you can get pretty good performance if you
have a video card that can do VESA 2.0 and linear framebuffer, or if you
run UniVBE (helpful for older video boards -- it REALLY sped up my older
Orchid board).
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