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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Alternate Screen buffer in newer macs?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.144402.28619@kth.se>
- Keywords: Alternate screen buffer, animation
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <9300610.18577@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:44:02 GMT
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- In <9300610.18577@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> markkj@muse.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Johnston) writes:
-
- > G'day. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the newer macs (ie
- >anything above a Plus... :) still have the alternate screen buffer? Looking
-
- >hardware, and it details no changes to the Segment Loader (which, I would assume
- >means that the Chain call is unaffected, hence one would imagine the alternate
- >buffer does exist in these later machines).
-
- The _Chain call is not supported since quite some time.
- You have LaunchApplication under System 7 and _Launch under
- System 6, but even so, the alternate screen buffer assumes
- things about zones that's not true anymore.
-
- Also, Color QuickDraw machines don't work that way AT ALL.
- Some cards have extra space in memory so you can do page
- flipping, but don't count on it.
-
- Instead, do as you said and _CopyBits longword-aligned bitmaps
- at the vertical refresh. Be sure to use SlotVInstall for
- color quickdraw machines, and VInstall for the Plus, SE, Classic
- and PowerBook 100.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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