... .

The buffer is linear, so updating it should be ... the sprites directly in the buffer. Now, apart from masking ... restoration for each sprite, but since the buffer is linear, going down ... the width. And the linear buffer may have invisible zones that ...

... 's scoreboard for rendering a sprite. This seems possible on a ... /> The colour map is a linear buffer that is actually 32 characters ... too. So to erase a sprite, I patch the pixels with ... to turn off the automatic sprite drawing/erasing, and do it ...

... easier and harder stuff like sprite drawing even harder. It ... difficulty to do a linear buffer as it is to ... when drawing sprites, the sprite engine in my sig never ... draw any size of sprite and clip it against ... want to make in a sprite engine.

...

... routine to copy pixels from linear buffer to screen would be ... column once for the entire sprite). In these cases, the ... colored big pixels, using a linear buffer to store attributes, implemented as ... on-the-fly from this linear buffer and modifies attributes on ...

... routine to copy pixels from linear buffer to screen took 50,142 ... T-states. Therefore copying entire buffer to screen will be 49 ... extra overhead only once per sprite. Even for an average of ... only 2 big pixels per sprite, you would have to update ...

... something else entirely, like a sprite size for a beat em ... attribute values from my own linear buffer of 32x24 bytes into video ... attribute values from my own linear buffer, now modified to 32x48 bytes ... at a time from the buffer into a register, it seems ...

...
47104 12*8 chars linear buffer (768 bytes)
47872 timer ...

Linear buffer would be slower to draw ... is surely more optimal than linear buffer.

Probably the most ...

[QUOTE=Shiru;503393]Linear buffer would be slower to draw ... is surely more optimal than linear buffer.[/QUOTE]

It depends ...

... =TVzombie;503402]Whereas with linear frame buffer you need someting like
linear buffer. And this is the worst ... be much simpler with a linear buffer.

... advantage goes clearly to the linear buffer.[/QUOTE]
Not so clearly ... special cases, and with simple linear framebuffer you can't take ... be much simpler with a linear buffer.[/QUOTE]
Not so much ...

... , and independent with the ink), linear buffer mode, etc...

Then ...

... ).

A circular buffer works with modular arithmetic. You ... somewhere within a fixed size buffer. Whenever you add to ... back to zero. The linear buffer in memory wraps in a ... circular buffers as two concatenated linear arrays while reading. You ...

[QUOTE=tstih;630116]1) Linear backbuffer. This means each drawing routine could be much faster since adding 32 would get you to next line and shifting 5 times left to random line.
[/QUOTE]

why people think that linear buffer is faster ?

[QUOTE=catmeows;631614]why people think that linear buffer is faster ?[/QUOTE]

It appeals to our sense of order, I suppose. :)

... ;631614]why people think that linear buffer is faster ?[/QUOTE]
... a case where a linear frame buffer is quite obviously not ... the peculiarities of the frame buffer layout generally had something ... help, the frame buffer wasn't a chunky linear display, but ...

... looped code and a moveable buffer pointer, and 28-wide if ... 's still copying from a linear buffer. Using LD/PUSH it might ...

... :
1. From spectrum to linear buffer. (not RCS)
2. Xoring ...

... :
1. From spectrum to linear buffer. (not RCS)
2. Xoring ...

... /> 1. From spectrum to linear buffer. (not RCS)
2 ... the following table, the "linear buffer" transformation is identified as " ... /> These results (using linear buffer and XOR with previous ... is unfortunate, since encoding linear buffer is much easier than ...

... provides better compression than LIN (linear buffer order), although the difference is ...

... "]28 columns reading from a linear buffer[/URL]. And I doubt it ...

I suppose you are talking about 8x2 multicolor with linear buffer... right?

[I]
EDIT: Ops! You have just answered my question.[/I]

... I didn't use a linear buffer.

I suppose the ... main advantage of a linear buffer would be scrolling. That's ...

Scrolling is a bit complicated to provide as a generic game engine. A linear buffer is one thing. Pointer access to it, where the source address is not hard-coded so you can move the pointer for a quick scroll, is another thing that takes more time.

... .

Drawing line in linear buffer, inner loop:
add hl ... .

XOR-fill from linear buffer to screen:
pop de ...

... address
; de = void *buffer
; bc = uint buffer_len< ... here is a buffer allocator and linear buffer data type for ... road I need a linear buffer with insert/append/read ... should have written this linear buffer type first and then ...

... , copy 32 attributes from linear buffer to next attribute row, simply ... read next 32 attributes from linear buffer and "poke" these ... time left to calculate linear buffer addresses dynamically as you ... as single attribute in linear buffer. It means the method ...

... 's the point of this buffer business?[/QUOTE]

IMHO ... a buffer makes sense in a demo ... time to also copy from linear buffer would not cost anything extra ...

...
; read 12 bytes from linear buffer (left side)
buffer1:
ld sp, buffer
pop af
pop ...
; read 12 bytes from linear buffer (right side)
buffer2: