Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!suitti From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSC 3.01 & 68881 linking problems Keywords: undefined math functions Message-ID: <11141@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 9 Dec 88 18:40:54 GMT References: <1499@murdu.OZ> <791@husc6.harvard.edu> Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 15 >>As an aside, does anyone know why the "stars" in the About... display >>don't work on a Mac II? > > The stars do work on a Mac II, but only in 1-bit mode. This is >because (for speed) the code writes directly to the window's portBits. >This doesn't quite work in multi-bit bitmaps... > --Rich I did see some application where the about box gave Think C some credit (it was before 3.0 came out...). It does the stars effect correctly with multiple-bit bitmaps turned on. It might have been Vision Lab, or Giffer. These programs deal with multiple-bit screens for everything. Anyway, though it is a small point, it can be done. Stephen.