From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Help: What causes screen flash problem in Allegro 2.0?
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:21:50 +0000
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Dead_and_gone writes:
>to add these two lines to your code to make it wait till the end of the 
>verical retrace-
>
>while (!(inportb(0x3DA)&0x08));
>while ((inportb(0x3DA)&0x08));

Not true. Allegro waits for the retrace automatically when you call
scroll_screen(), or at least it should. If adding those two lines fixes
the problem, there's a problem with Allegro, so please let me know what
happens!

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