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- From: michael.smith@f842.n800.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (michael smith)
- Message-ID: <3_800_842_fidonet2b3c3741@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a memory buffer rather than screen
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
- Date: 26 Dec 92 11:41:48 GMT
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- Original to: bpat@cs.mcgill.ca
- In a message of <10 Dec 92 12:16:14>, bpat@cs.mcgill.ca (3:713/602) writes:
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- b> have the books with me right now. Also, could someone tell me if it's a
- b> perfectly legal thing to do. It will work on any ST, and most probably
- on
- b> the STe, and MEGASTe. But does the TT still have this screen-switching
- b> stuff available ? Will the Falcon have it?
-
- Yes and probably yes, however it's a _really_bad_ thing to do under MTos,
- for obvious reasons - just imagine if there's a context switch while the
- logical screen is pointing in the wrong direction...
-
- (unless this is one of the context items saved in the switch??)
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- b> Patrick.
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