Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!dseah
From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: graphics
Message-ID: <1491@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 89 06:42:09 GMT
References: <8903220542.AA24198@wpi>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <8903220542.AA24198@wpi> GREYELF@WPI.BITNET writes:
>I've heard a great deal of talk here lately about games that use page
>flipping techniques.  It IS possible (even easy) to tap the
>VBL interrupt itself, and use an interrupt driven routine to
>flip the pages, then return, and let the program draw on the other
>page.

Wouldn't you have a problem if your interrupt driven page flipper flipped to
the page you were currently drawing on?  There doesn't seem to be much of an
advantage in using the VBL interrupt to flip pages.

>One question guys, has anyone tried shell?  I'm really getting
>discouraged here.  I'll make a deal, if I get enough money
>to buy a IIgs, I'll make a IIgs version.  :^)

Mike, I'm *FIVE MINUTES AWAY on FOOT*!  I haven't seen Shell yet!  Yoo hoo! 
We are the same major!   We go to the same college!  We have a whole APPLE BBS
set-up on our mainframe!  Imagine how we feel! :>

This be a local distribution, too!