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- From: lstein@genome.wi.edu (Lincoln Stein)
- Subject: Re: VBL tasks on Quadra video, SlotVInstall
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.123255.26830@genome.wi.edu>
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- Organization: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:32:55 GMT
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- > >Can anyone tell us if it is possible to install
- > >a VBL task on the Quadra internal video and how to do it?
- >
- >Bill, if really only want to install a VBL task, that means a task that
- >is invoked by the main video boards VBL interrupt and no other special
- >things, why don't you use VBLInstall instead of SlotVInstall? This does
- >all the job for you: find the main video board and install into that
- >irq's queue (not sure if VBLInstall, VBLRemove maintain a special queue,
- >but who cares?). It works fine for me on a Quadra 900 and IIsi.
-
- My understanding of the VBL situation on the Mac II->Quadra series is
- that VBLInstall is supported for backward compatability purposes only.
- It maintains a species VBL queue that gets called at exactly the same
- frequently that the Mac Plus series did (60 Hz) and is not tied in
- with the video refresh in any way. VBLInstall/VBLRemove work great
- for a generic task that needs to get called on a regular basis, but
- for specialized tasks, such as snazzy animation, that need to be
- synched with the monitor refresh, they won't work.
-
- Unfortunately I don't have the answer to the original question; I
- played around with it once and ran into exactly the same problem
- described in the original post.
-
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- Lincoln Stein
- lstein@genome.wi.edu Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
- lstein@hstbme.mit.edu Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA
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