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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bowden
  2. From: bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John William Bowden)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Arcade-style animation...
  5. Date: 23 Jan 1993 10:39:07 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
  7. Lines: 10
  8. Message-ID: <1jr78bINNbd9@uwm.edu>
  9. References: <1993Jan23.014127.5750@cs.ucla.edu>
  10. Reply-To: bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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  12. Originator: bowden@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
  13.  
  14. From article <1993Jan23.014127.5750@cs.ucla.edu>, by tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson):
  15. > But in 8bits, on a IIci or IIfx I can't update the screen fast enough when
  16. > a large area requires updating.
  17.  
  18. The trick is that you cant update the whole screen every time.
  19. Try writing some inline assembly code to copy from the offscreen
  20. pixmap to the main device's pixmap.  
  21.  
  22. -John
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