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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Double Buffering
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 19:35:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 19:35:57 1987
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In article <8711102005.AA06675@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> >Why don't you just set up two screens and use ScreenToFront and ScreenToBack
> >to flip them? These routines are (as far as I have been able to tell) as near
> >instantanious as you can get. Let intuition worry about the copper lists.
> >That's what it's for, after all.
> 	Nah... too clugy... very inefficient considering that Intuition must
> redo the copper list everytime you do the flip.

Yes, but the question is: "is it fast enough". I do NOT like playing games
that close to the hardware. Too likely to do something that won't survive
1.3 or 1.4 or maybe 2.0.
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