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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Fixing flicker, & future frame rate issues
Message-ID: <8962@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 19 Apr 88 23:44:30 GMT
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Summary: Flames chilled out.

In article <2984@leo.UUCP> harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>	First off, I owe Byran an apology. Sorry Byran, but I had to know for
>sure where you were coming from.

Thanks for apologizing to him. Since my only motivation for flaming
was because of your rude comment to him, I hereby retract all of my flames.
Other emotional details of our respective postings likely don't matter now.
But in particular, you're right, I'm not an expert on the subject;
sorry for acting supercilious.

>	This demo makes the flaw in FF VERY apparent. It has a fantastic
>horizontally scrolling starfield. This appears to make to make the FF
>defect obvious.

Good; now we all agree.

>The interesting thing is, unlike what Byran said, it takes
>considerably LESS motion than 1 pixel per 30/sec. Every Amiga demo I have
>seen doesn't have this kind of motion. 
>	Any experts care to explain this one?

The more information you can provide, the easier it would be to
explain. I'm not sure I understand exactly what the phenomenon is
that gives rise to your question.

Could you describe this in more detail?
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