Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com
From: mperdue@hrtc.net (Mario Perdue)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: high-res?
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:09:45 GMT
Organization: SCEA News Server
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <34638347.16036238@205.149.189.29>
References: <63vuoq$852@scea>
NNTP-Posting-Host: firewall.hrtc.net
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235
Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:258 scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics:177

On 7 Nov 1997 20:47:22 GMT, cwk5@cornell.edu (Clint) wrote:

>Well, I haven't touched my Yaroze since summer (been busy with school and all), 
>but I just got the new Codewarrior so I decided to give it a go again before 
>break.  Anyways, I'm gonna try and code a soccer game, and I'd like to do it in 
>the high-res mode.
>
>Has anyone else done any 2d games in high-res?  I remember someone said that 
>you don't use double-buffering with high-res, and that you have to keep the 
>frame rate at 60fps or else everything flickers.  Is this true?

Yes, this is true.

> Would it be hard to keep a *simple* 2d game at 60fps?

It's not to hard as long as you keep the sprite count down.

Mario