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From:	Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Allegro and dirty rectangles and fps
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At 02:28 AM 2/23/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Just a little q:
>
>Would it be possible to to refresh every second line
>in say a 3D-game (and hence boosting the framerate)
>without getting an awfoul result?
>
>Anybody tried?

This is done all the time actually on certain video hardware that supports
it.
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