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From: Mark.Fong@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Fong)
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Subject: Re: CAN THE MAC ACTUALLY DO ANIMATION?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 23:06:28 GMT
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You must be the author of Solarian.  Great work!  How come you didn't go 
commercial with it?  It was certainly worthy of it.  I'm sure you're asked 
this time and time again.
 
Also, I noticed you're on Garnet at U.C. Berkeley, are you a grad student?
 
Anyways, I wrote "The Big One!" (renamed "Operation: Tsunami"), and I 
basically rewrote CopyMask() (application-specific, however), used 
double-offscreen buffers, and kept track of "update" zones.  I still get 
caught by the gun on the slower machines though.  Do you know of a way to 
time it just right (VBL task maybe) to beat the gun and avoid tearing?
 
Thanks,
  Mark Fong

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