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From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Flicker Fixer
Message-ID: <4633@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 17:02:39 GMT
References: <2907@leo.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <2907@leo.UUCP> harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>
>	Somebody mentioned a while back that the "ultimate display bar none" was
>interlace using dropcloth, dropshadow, and morerows.
		 ^^^^^^^^^
I personally prefer a program I wrote which uses dual-playfield mode, so
that you can display a picture in 1 or 2 bitplanes on your Workbench *without*
losing either your original WB colours or the colours in the picture; except
for the "shared" background colour, and there is a switch for selecting either
the one from the IFF file or the original screen background colour.

It handles different resolutions for WB and picture OK.

It does result in an overall performance hit due to the 3 or 4 planes in
med-res being displayed; I haven't seen it going with expansion mem so I
don't know if it's always a problem. It's less noticeable with 1 bitplane
anyway.

If anyone is interested in it, please drop me a note. (It has been submitted
to the moderators but in a very early form, and all later versions haven't
seemed to get there.)

John

PS Oh yes, it doesn't work with DropShadow :-(.