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Hi,   :-)
   Just some more quick thoughts,

On May 26, 4:51 pm, Georg <dos DOT  DOT  DOT  AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
>
> The program uses timeouts a lot and thus constantly queries the system
> time. Maybe that is a reason for this.

There's bound to be a faster way than calling DOS just to get the
time. A naive guess would be some kind of farpeek to BIOS memory or
whatever (probably mentioned in the FAQ).

> It also uses VESA to write to the screen and there __dpmi_int is
> called for bank switching. The writing to the screen is done with
> dosmemput.

I'm not experienced in gfx, but VESA is sometimes slow, esp. at higher
resolutions. So either lower the resolution or try something else.
Actually, why are you using bank switching, isn't that from old VESA
1.2? If you use the VESA 2.0 pmode stuff, it should be faster, and
most video cards "should" support it these days (I'd blindly assume).
See Allegro library (/v2tk/) for source code examples, it supports
both (and then some).

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