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Re: QuickDraw or No???



On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Frogboyz wrote:

> Certain Macintosh programs allow direct writes to video hardware,
> bypassing Quickdraw, and it is supposed to improve speed.  I don't
> know whether or not this is recommended under Executor.  Any ideas?

These applications work under Executor.  I believe there is a switch or 
text field in the preferences (Cmd-Shift-5) panel that has to do with 
detecting and handling apps that bypass QuickDraw.  I should warn you 
though that performance for these apps is poor, especially in X windows 
based systems.  Under E/DOS you can get pretty good performance if you 
have a video card that can do VESA 2.0 and linear framebuffer, or if you 
run UniVBE (helpful for older video boards -- it REALLY sped up my older 
Orchid board).

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