Re: [Pysdl-devel] Announce: pyAliens 1.1

[Peter N. <pn...@ya...>]

> The only change with this version is the inclusion
> of the frame-rate
> limiting made possible by Mark's changes in pySDL
> 0.0.6 (which
> pyaliens now requires). This should now be playable
> on Windows with
> hardware acceleration.
> 
> Could someone who has compiled pySDL 0.0.6 for win32
> test this please?
> 
It may be my imagination but the software version
seems a little smoother than before.  Since you're
running fullscreen why not use the nice new
cursor-hiding feature?  

It runs at a playable speed now with hardware
acceleration, although it is still a little faster,
probably I'm not quite getting 50fps in software (thus
I guess the point about speed-limiting vs
fps-limiting).  There is some flickering though
because of the fact that the screen is updated
immediately (update_rect does nothing on a hw surface
apparently, though it doesn't really hurt anything --
I removed them to prove this). 

Incidentally what's the best way to structure a game
that has to either run in software or hardware
depending on what's available? It seems like page
flipping would be out of the question (b/c of how you
have to erase where the sprite was 2 frames ago, etc).
 maybe a second hw surface that uses
dirty-rectangle-style blits to the visible one in
place of update_rects? --P 





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