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- And the mists parted revealing d8klojo@dtek.chalmers.se
- d> When you shrink the screen size in the way we do now, by simply drawing
- d> to a smaller area, wouldn't it be possible to switch graphics mode on
- the
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- d> fly?
- d> What I mean is:
- d> - Use a monochrome mode while the top part of the screen is displayed.
- d> - Change to TC mode by HBL interrupt just before the 'play area' is
- d> reached. - Switch back to monochrome by another HBL interrupt to display
- d> the bottom.
- d> That should save lots of bandwidth with a small window, and would be
- d> possible to combine with the suggestions above if needed.
- d>
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- Have you actually tried doing this on a VGA monitor? Attempting to change
- to mono will sometimes cause sync errors causing the screen to jump - when
- it does it every frame the result is extremely painful to watch. I think
- what you want is to change the start and end lines of the screen so that
- the monitor doesn't display anything outside the screen area currently
- used. Unfortunately I don't think this will have any great impact on the
- game speed at all - IMHO of course.
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- >> Using these screenmodes will, ofcourse make the game look alot uglier
- >> (blocky pixels), but also move alot smoother. What do you guys think of
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- Doug has added a 'double line mode' for RGB users in the latest version of
- Bad Mood which gives approximately 50-60% speed up on full screen (320x100
- vs 320x200).
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