20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
2:11 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
I've read that several times and am still trying to figure out if that
is an elegant solution or an ugly solution... :-)
(elegant due to instant hardware flip, but ugly due to burning up double
the video ram just to blink a character... decisions, decisions...)
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The big
problem with a graphical version would be the "blinking"
attribute - Do any graphics modes support blinking in hardware?
Do they need to? Don't peecee video cards have the ability to flip
between two blocks of video RAM with the flip of a bit? All you need
to do is render twice, once with and once without the blinking stuff,
and keep toggling between the two VRAM areas every however often.