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Re: Results - Re: Xgalaga anyone?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Sat Nov 9 01:47:58 1996

Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 01:46:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:

> Kyle Ferrio wrote:
> ......
> > This is -not- about sluggish video performance.  That is a buffer issue.
> > And it's not a problem on my hardware.  This is about mouse clicks not
> > producing missles for a second or two at the beginning of waves.  I call
> > this "mouse latency" to distinguish it from the buffer issue.
> 
> Have you tried to press "b" just before you start
> to play? This will speed things up but certain 
> objects will flicker.
> 

As I wrote (and you quoted), this is not a video buffer issue.
The 'b' option turns video buffering on/off.

Kyle


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