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From: mjhostet@athena.mit.edu (Mat J Hostetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Help with graphics
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Date: 28 Jun 90 13:51:38 GMT
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Reply-To: mjhostet@athena.mit.edu (Mat J Hostetter)
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I am new to the Mac, but I am an experienced C and assembly programmer
on other machines.  I am porting over a game I wrote to the Mac, and
I need some way to do really fast graphics.  I need to be able to display
small ( < 16x16) geometric figures, replacing whatever is underneath them.
I played around with CopyBits, and got it to work, but it is not fast
enough.  I am also considering writing directly to the grafPort's
portBits area, but I am concerned about making this run on both color
and monochrome Macs.  Anyway, my question is, what's the *RIGHT* way to
draw these shapes on this machine?

Please reply by email, as I can't read this group often, but you might as
well post if you have something Wise to say.  And sorry if you have
discussed this any time in the past-- I missed it.


Thanks,

Mat Hostetter