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ImmortalA1000 · 18 December 2021, 11:50

I think from memory Flight Simulator II by Sublogic or other flight sims of the late 80s just draws into a rectangular area of the same screen in full screen mode so cockpit/status panel isn't overlapping so may just be a copperlist change of screen memory location midscreen. Not sure.

Not just polygons though, the 2.5D "3D" scaling levels on Unreal seem to have 3 colour blocks of scaling graphics so I assume that lack of color helps keep the speed up.

1.2.3.
*music starts*
#all I want for Xmas is a coding brain like Southern, like Shaun Southern

(lol and of course only if you can have the speed of 3 bitplane/8 color graphics in the 6 bitplane dual playfield mode on an Amiga 1000)

18 December 2021, 11:50	#12
ImmortalA1000 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: london/england Posts: 1,347	I think from memory Flight Simulator II by Sublogic or other flight sims of the late 80s just draws into a rectangular area of the same screen in full screen mode so cockpit/status panel isn't overlapping so may just be a copperlist change of screen memory location midscreen. Not sure. Not just polygons though, the 2.5D "3D" scaling levels on Unreal seem to have 3 colour blocks of scaling graphics so I assume that lack of color helps keep the speed up. 1.2.3. music starts #all I want for Xmas is a coding brain like Southern, like Shaun Southern (lol and of course only if you can have the speed of 3 bitplane/8 color graphics in the 6 bitplane dual playfield mode on an Amiga 1000)