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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac Programming Books...
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Date: 10 Nov 90 10:09:42 GMT
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In article <13541@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> darweesh@zephyrus.crd.ge.com (Michael Darweesh) writes:
>Well, I've been doing a lot of Mac programming lately.  Mostly color games.
>I think "how to write macintosh software", scott knaster, hayden books is good

The Scott Knaster book was written when the MacPlus was the very latest thing.
You'll find nothing about color games there. Your best bet for speed is to
use long-word aligned offsceen pixmaps, and lots of CopyBits. I believe
the new offscreen pixmap support takes care of alignment for you.
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