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- From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
- Subject: Re: Ansi and Jrcomm
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.215837.7031@pixel.kodak.com>
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 21:58:37 GMT
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- dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
- [re: flashing text]
- : Since the Amiga doesn't support it, Jack would have to write some kind
- : of independant interrupt-driven loop to do it (draw normal; draw reverse;
- : draw normal; draw reverse; etc. ad nauseum). Frankly, it seems like an
- : awful lot of work just to allow some programmer the privaledge of annoying
- : me by flashing the monitor in my face.
-
- It's not nearly that hard. Just reserve another bit plane for flashing.
- That would make colors 0-7 normal and colors 8-15 flash by having a routine
- run at intervals to reprogram half of the palette (switching it between
- normal colors and black).
-
- But frankly, I can do without the flashing, too.
-
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- Ed Hanway --- jeh@raster.kodak.com
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