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Subject: Re: Allegro --> virtual framerate
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From: Georg DOT Kolling AT t-online DOT de (Georg Kolling)
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Marcus D. Brenneman schrieb:
> How can I accomplish that trick
> that's seen in DOOM, Quake, etc.?
>

For smooth animation you should always use page flipping or double buffering.
If you do so, it's an easy way to get a constant speed on any computer:
Just draw the picture and look how much time it took, then make up a routine 
that calculates AI, object moving, etc., for exactly the time you needed to draw 
the picture. For example: on a 486, one frame takes 30 ms, while a certain 
object moves 1,5 m; on a Pentium, the same frame takes only 20 ms, so the object
only moves 1 meter per frame