Re: [linuxgames] Poll: Video Access

[Francesco Orsenigo <xarvh@lombardiacom.it>]

Steve Baker:
>  That used to be a very good technique - but with modern graphics cards,
> it's pretty slow.  You want to think in terms of setting up your sprites,
> etc as texture maps - then rendering textured polygons.  This is hundreds
> of times faster than anything else you can think of.  OpenGL is the way of
> the future.

That's surely what i'll do for the next project.
I've also considered rewrite the whole thing in OpenGL...

Thanx,
Francesco Orsenigo