Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/09/23:51:30
At 08:30 3/8/1998 GMT, John & Sue Kissell wrote:
> Using a 256 color palette, is it possible to simultaneously use
>different palettes in different parts of the screen in Allegro without
>the flicker produced by set_palette()? I tried a hack using memcpy with
>a temporary palette, but I'm beginning to think that the way a vidieo
>monitor works makes this unlikely, if not impossible, without some sort
>of interrupt routine. Any comments?
I'm fairly sure you can only have one palette at a time with standard VGA
hardware. To eliminate the flicker, aren't you supposed to use `vsync'?
Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net
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