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From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac Programming Books.(new book on color)
Message-ID: <2244@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 11 Nov 90 03:47:34 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <21599@well.sf.ca.us>, oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes:
> 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.
> -- 
> -- David Phillip Oster - Note new signature. Old one has gone Bye Bye.
> -- oster@well.sf.ca.us = {backbone}!well!oster


I just got volume 4 of Chernikov (sp?) series.  I believe this one is
called "Expanding the ToolBox". I haven't had much chance to look at it yet,
but at least half of the book deals with color. You might want to keep an
eye out for it.

Keith Conover
ireland@ac.dal.ca