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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Screen goes black
Message-ID: <4677@well.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 09:22:37 GMT
References: <2108@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: The Leo Schwab Home for Wayward Computers
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In article <2108@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>        I am using non-intuition screens to achieve a static double buffer
>     effect.  Basically, I create two View/ViewPort/RasInfo/BitMaps, and
>     then switch between them.  The switching is handled by a copper
>     generated interrupt.  [ ... ]

	You're trying to do 3D, aren't ya?

	I happen to know that you're in quasi-competition with us, so I'm
not at liberty to disclose any information I may have.	:-) :-)

>        How does LoadView work?
>
	It updates GfxBase, then stuffs some registers in the chips.

>        Any idea what is going on?  [ ... ]

	Yes.			:-)

	HINT:  Use VBLANK instead; it's easier to work with.

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