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- From: Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de (Julian Reschke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a mem
- Message-ID: <A53826@MS.maus.de>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 12:15:00 GMT
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- Patrick BETREMIEUX (bpat@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
- [...]
- >There is a way to set the width and height of the logical screen, so you
- >may draw the whole list and then blit the part you want, but I don't have
- >the books with me right now. Also, could someone tell me if it's a perfectly
- >legal thing to do. It will work on any ST, and most probably on the STe, and
- >MEGASTe. But does the TT still have this screen-switching stuff available ?
- >Will the Falcon have it?
-
- I guess so. However, it *is* bad programming practice, because you are
- mixing different layers of the operating system (XBIOS and VDI), and
- no one guarantees that this will have the side effects that you expect.
- In fact, it won't work with some graphics cards.
-