Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Trying to add SDL Renderer

[Jim U. <ji...@3e...>]

At 06:37am on 2002 March 09, W. Michael Petullo did write:
> After looking at the X11 renderer code, I concluded that the global
> variable fb is a video frame buffer filled by tuxnes's emulator code.
> I thought that the following pseudo code would display a NES frame:

> drawimage(PBL)
> Memory Copy (SDLbuf, p, 240 * 256)
> SDL Display(SDLbuf)

I'm curious--why don't you have the render draw directly into the
SDL buffer?  Looks like you're doing double work.

Anyway, if you want an example of rendering look at the GGI renderer,
it's probably easier to follow than X11 because the operation is similar to
SDL (as far as I know).

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