Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!stevep From: stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May15.171002.23789@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 15 May 91 17:10:02 GMT References: <91134.022556MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991May15.112103.22087@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 13 In article <1991May15.112103.22087@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > 1) No way to do page-flipping. You have to bash all the bits in each > scene into place on the display. Double-buffering is vital to > animation. I was under the impression that the NeXT frame buffer scheme did allow double buffering, at least on the 16-bit color implementation. Wrong? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- INTEL 80x86: Just say NOP -- Internet: stevep@wrq.com -- AOL: Spoole -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------