From: Robin Burrows <rburrows AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Winallegro - NO page flipping ???
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:22:09 +0000
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Oliver Batchelor wrote:
> 
> Does winallegro not support page flipping ??
> It didnt work in the allegro demo or in the example ..

Stefan told me it wasn't supported because DirectX doesn't support it
the same way as Allegro. You can get the same effect by creating two
bitmaps with create_video_bitmap (blah) the size of the screen each,
then using show_video_bitmap (blah) to flip between them.