Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:49:00 -0800 (PST)
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To: jdk AT wpol DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Multi palettes in Alegro
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At 08:30  3/8/1998 GMT, John & Sue Kissell wrote:
>    Using a 256 color palette, is it possible to simultaneously use
>different palettes in different parts of the screen in Allegro without
>the flicker produced by set_palette()? I tried a hack using memcpy with
>a temporary palette, but I'm beginning to think that the way a vidieo
>monitor works makes this unlikely, if not impossible, without some sort
>of interrupt routine. Any comments?

I'm fairly sure you can only have one palette at a time with standard VGA
hardware. To eliminate the flicker, aren't you supposed to use `vsync'?

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net