On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Fabio Alemagna wrote: [...] > only platform), and also because there exist one free alternative to > AmigaOS, which is AROS, and another commercial alternative which is > MorphOS, and everyone of dem deals perfectly with the issue we're > discussing here. I'll explain in another email how's that possible.
Please, do explain the technical details of the solution used by these OSes. It is precisely because we have not been smart enough to invent such a solution that we do not think implementing a systematic generic backbuffer in GGI/KGI should be a basic requirement. We can only think to a design that involves a lot of swapping and probably a central dispatcher for all drawing commands (for synchronisation) drawing commands. Do show us how to do it, or how it has been done on another OS. (PS: BTW, maybe using main memory as framebuffer memory like i810 does for example, is the key here. But this is hardware-dependent.) Rodolphe
