[ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 5 - No Overlays

[Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>]

*This test should work on almost all machines*

I got rid of overlays in favor of writing to an offscreen buffer and
occasionally blitting (copying) the contents of that offscreen buffer to the
display memory (primary surface).  This should work on almost all machines.
I have tested it on my Windows 2000 and my Windows 98 machines; it works.
I'm not saying it has the best performance in the world, but it does work.

Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll, so, if you
already have the Test 3 full package (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed,
you can just download the xf_dx.dll package; otherwise, download the full
Test 5 package.

Full Test 5 Package: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
(1.7 MB)
Test 5 xf_dx.dll Package: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43
kB)

You can download the xf_dx.dll test 5 source if you have Visual C++ 6 and
you feel like poking around:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)

Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,

Harold