Re: [stella] Hardware comparisons

Subject: Re: [stella] Hardware comparisons
From: Glenn Saunders <cybpunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:59:17 -0700
At 02:14 AM 4/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
Actually, most modern PC video cards have hardware support for the mouse
cursor.  With a good video driver, the only time you draw it directly is if
you are doing multicolored or animated cursors.  I'm not sure about the Mac,
although modern incarnations are using the same video chips as many PCs.

That's the key. I have a Fire GL 1000 Pro and I can't enable full hardware accelleration on it without graphical glitches. Pointer flicker is a big problem, especially over DirectX/OpenGL displays.


Pretty outrageous in this day and age.


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