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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Darn non-multitasking IFF viewers
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Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 15:19:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 15:19:28 1987
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:>Ok, I'm upset.  I just went through three, count them, THREE IFF viewers.
:>ALL of them hogged processor time while displaying the picture.  This is
:>hard to do with the Amiga.  They must have really worked at it!!
:
:	I doubt the fault lies in the EA routines; the IFF routines
:merely allocate a bitmap and load the picture into it, they don't
:display the image.  It is up to the IFF client to display the image
:and wait for some input before exiting.  It's probably just a case of somebody
:busy-waiting for input.

	You misunderstood bryce.... Bryce *was* talking about the fact the
programs are busy waiting for input, which is pretty darn hard to do even
for an idiot programmer.  I also noticed that COSMO2 busy waits for input
(A PD asteroids-like game).. Of course, COSMO2 has other problems.... (at
least v2 runs on 1.2).

				-Matt