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From: "Scott Ward" <scott.ward6@virgin.net>
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Subject: Seperate drawing environments.
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:20:24 +0100
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Is there any way of having seperate drawing environments when in
non-interlaced mode?

I want to keep the main drawing buffers for the drawing to screen but it
would be useful if I could draw to smaller areas of the frame buffer to
convert to 1-bit masks for collision detection purposes. For example, only
drawing one layer of a background image which would then be converted to a
1-bit mask and tested for collision against a spaceship mask. Essentially,
this should enable collision detection with background graphics, shouldn't
it?

I know it's a slow method of collision detection but I'd still like to try
it out so please help. :o)

Scott Ward.