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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:50:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: Allegro and blitting to screen
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Tuomo A Turunen wrote:

> HELP !!??
> I'm programming a very nice game with DJGPP and allegro. I use SVGA
> 640*480*256 colors, so graphic looks good. But the problem is the
> double buffering. It's just too slow. Example :
>
>   BITMAP *buffer = create_bitmap(640, 480);
>
>   clear(buffer);
>   while( game_continues) {
>     // some drawwing on the buffer
>     blit(buffer, screen, 0, 0, 0, 0, 640, 480);
>   }
>
> That is a the only way I can think of, but itsn't fast enough.
> So is there any faster way to do that 'blit(buffer, screen, ...)' ???

I'VE GOT THE SAME PROBLEM ----
SO PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU KNOW HOW TO SOLVE IT .....
THANKS IN ADVANCE !!