Re: [Tuxmath-devel] thoughts

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Monday 10 September 2001 12:10pm, Calvin Arndt wrote:
> Are you planning on separating the math ops???
>
> addtion
> subtraction
> multiplication
> division

You can already do this with the command line options (see "tuxmath --help")

I think these options will also make it into the graphical options UI.

> Might be easier to option the age levels then
>
> and for the youngest kids pics (three apples + 1 apple =)
>
> Had the opportunity to test on a socket 7 P1-233mmx machine this
> weekend and was real suprised by how much slower it operates on that
> level hardware.
>
> Since School hardware can reeeealy vary can this improve?

Bill is planning (last I checked ;-) to add some sort of dirty-blitting 
method for the game. This can greatly increase speed on slower machines (it's 
what we did in Tux Typing).

The disadvantage is that if your hardware supports double-buffering (which 
isn't a CPU speed issue, rather a graphics card/support issue), then you 
can't ensure consistant frame-rates (which is why he's planning on doing it 
both ways).

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