Re: Challenge for EUPHORIA Programmers
On 10 Sep 2001, at 22:39, David Cuny wrote:
>
> C. K. Lester wrote:
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> > I was wondering and considered this:
> >
> > Is EUPHORIA "powerful" enough for running the
> > "Flying Windows" screensaver?
>
> Yes, all you're doing is blitting a graphic onto the screen. You can call
> the Win32 function StretchBlt() to automatically resize the source bitmap
> onto the destination. If you use a monochrome bitmap, just change the
> background color of the destination before blitting it, and it'll
> automatically draw it in that color for you.
>
> -- David Cuny
>
> NB: The actual implementation is trivial enough that I'll leave it as an
> exercise for the reader. I have an elegant solution, but it's a bit to
> large to fit into the margin...
This reminds me of the boastful claims that the Amiga was the only puter to
be able to execute it's splashy screen. Within a week, someone had the
good ole C64 with a 1 megahertz 8bit cpu running the same screen.
Kat
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