In the second installment of this two-part article, our authors present the source code for a simulated hypercube system that runs under standard UNIX and describe how you can use the system. Still, its necessary to understand what's being measured, how accurately it's being measured, and the reliability of the resulting numbers. This month they discuss the nature of programming languages and why they're so slow to change. This new version can be Windows or DOS hosted and targeted, and includes a royalty-free DOS extender. With this technique, a copy of display memory is kept in offscreen memory where drawing takes place.
Drawings are then copied to the screen in a burst.