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From: bsasaki@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
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Subject: Optimizing Arcade Games
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Date: 23 Apr 91 11:40:57 GMT
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Hello, 
 thank you all for the info about MCGA. I currently have BGVGA256.BGI
up and running on my MCGA system (199,319) and 256 colors. I am just
beginning to learn how to program a simple arcade game in pascal,
and currently using PutImage and GetImage extensively for animation,
ie.. writing the image, then XORing the old image position. I was
wondering if I should continue on this path for animation. Will
I run into memory problems if I use too many images. Or worse yet,
will the program become too slow to be recognised as an arcade game
after updating 4-5 images on the screen? Please give me some hints
on how to optimize my program and tricks or philosophies that anybody
can give me. I am using Turbo Pascal 5.0. Thank you very much.

								Aloha!
								newbie
'I wanna go back to my little grass shack..'