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From: rwilson@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Randy Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MF compatibility using both screen buffers
Message-ID: <2155@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 88 09:44:22 GMT
References: <2145@polya.STANFORD.EDU> <7669@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: rwilson@polya.UUCP (Randy Wilson)
Organization: Stanford University
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>Note that this is only a problem on MacPlus and SE; the page flipping on the
>MacII is done differently (since you have to access the video driver on the
>card directly).

Luckily, the speed of the MacII makes page flipping unnecessary.  I have
time to draw in an offscreen bitmap and CopyBits it into a window,
making compatibility much easier.  Just for interest's sake, is there a
second page on the MacII, and how would one get at it?

Randy Wilson
wilson@polya.stanford.edu