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Subject: Re: CLUT troubles!
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 10:01:34 +0100
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Jamin Frederick wrote:
> 
>         Does doing a MoveImage() and DrawSync() often bad for
> performance?  Is it ok to be doing this for say palette cycling?  How
> about StoreImage() for manipulation in memory every few frames?
> Is there problematic overhead or can it be done freely?
> 
> Jamin Frederick

Yes it is bad for performance. If you are using MoveImage, StoreImage
and LoadImage its best to rearrange things so they're done just before
you normally call DrawSync.

You can use StoreImage pointing to an array and change CLUT values
there, and then do a LoadImage.

Stuart