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- >>>>> "pageone" == pageone <pageone@netcom.com> writes:
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- pageone> Sounds good. I'm thinking about a certain game
- pageone> "pararena" which was very usable under 1.2e but was hurt
- pageone> badly by the color quickdraw in 1.99x. It looked like
- pageone> the bitblt handling was slower (even in B&W mde).
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- Older versions of executor would let the emulated program directly
- access the VGA frame buffer. That doesn't work under Windows/DPMI,
- has various problems in larger screen modes, and doesn't work well
- with dynamic depth setting, so now the emulated program references an
- "offscreen" frame buffer which is used to update the real VGA screen
- periodically. This indirection will slow down some programs (like
- pararena?).
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- We may eventually add an option that gives you faster graphics access
- under non-DPMI; that mode will cause serious problems with a few
- programs (e.g. Solarian) so we can't make it the default.
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- -Mat
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