From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Using (page-flipping) to speed up a program
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:16:18 GMT
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:52:40 -0500, "23yrold3yrold" <cbarry AT pangea DOT ca>
wrote:

>In regards to the response I posted a few hours ago, the reason I went from
>still having problems with page-flipping straight into triple-buffering is
>I'm trying to write a generic but effective engine for a vertical scrolling
>shooter. Triple-buffering seems to be the best way in terms of animation and
>speed, so of course I've been experimenting heavily in between posts. My
>main question is whether triple-buffering is possible outside of Mode-X (I
>want 640 x 480 w/ 16-bit color.).?

It's possible in any system that has enough VRAM for three times the
screen size (in your case, this would probably mean a 4 MB video card)
and a way to switch from one page to another.

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