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On Sat, 20 May 2000 10:00:21 -0500, "Thomas J. Hruska"
<shinelight AT crosswinds DOT net> wrote:

>>A related question. I have seen quite a few low level "video writing"
>>problems here. Allegro and Grx both have fast frame buffer
>>access methods, including fast bitblt functions. Why do so many
>>people go through the trouble, to reinvent the wheel?
>
>Answer:  Haven't tried Grx, and Allegro's font routines don't do what I
>want to do.  Hence the attempt to squeeze out every last ounce of speed
>from my own routines.

No need to reinvent the wheel.  If you want good font routines, write
them yourself.  I like to draw text to a BITMAP and then use Allegro's
rotation, scaling, and polygon texture-mapping routines to play around
with it.  And I keep portability.

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