From:	William Lachance <billl AT synapse DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro, Blit called by a timer, can it be done?
Date:	Sun, 04 May 1997 09:49:47 -0700
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Daniel England/Shaun Byrne wrote:
> 
> I'm relatively new to Allegro and I would like to know if blit can be used
> by a timer function.

It was possible in 2.0 (and should be still with 2.2), when I was 
designing a game to use timers for damn near every event. In 
general, it's not a good idea -- your program will be much harder 
to debug and there are no speed increases that I can see.

After all is said and done, a computer can only send information
along a bus as fast as it can send data across a bus. ;-)
Which isn't as fast as most of us would like in the case of 
386's/486's and SVGA resolutions. Sigh.


So long,

William Lachance
billl AT synapse DOT net
http://www.synapse.net/~billl

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