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From: "Alex Herbert" <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Have I mentioned this before... bgWorkArea?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:49:12 +0100
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Hi Max,

According to the Library Reference (page 142):

size=(((ScreenW/CellW+1)*(ScreenH/CellH+1+1)*6+4)*2+2)

Hope this helps.

Alex



"Max" <mad.max@which.net> wrote in message
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> Hey all,
>
> I've started up again on the 2D tutorial and I'm puzzling over this
> bgWorkArea size. Basically I have played around with it quite a bit. I
have
> 320 [16x16] tiles on the screen (20 tiles width x 16 tiles height) and my
> bgWorkArea is (20*16)*12 = 3840, now I get the 20*16 bit - the number of
> tiles on the screen but 12 is just an arbitiary number I put in but it
won't
> work with anything less. I have also tried SCREEN_WIDTH (320) *
> SCREEN_HEIGHT (256) = 81920 (the number of pixels on the screen) but this
> number far outweighs what I actually need as a bare minimum... because it
> works with 3840.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the bgWorkArea size is actually mean to be? -
> please?
>
> Max
>
>