Time for some QuickDraw updates! Perhaps surprisingly, we already had at this point two cases which required Arc drawing: Dark Castle help screen (the “jump” arcs), and Railroad Tycoon signal circles. As the arc drawing is closely related to circle drawing, we had to just handle the arc begin/end angles and using them to control circle scanline rasterization, we had those cases working:

Another set of features in QuickDraw which we needed to implement at this point were the CalcMask and CopyMask routines. It appears that Glider 2 uses those to draw sprites:

…and Railroad Tycoon also uses those to calculate masks and draw everything dynamic on the map (tracks, stations, bridges, and lighthouses). A nice side feature of CalcMask is that it shares basic algorithm with SeedFill call, so with just adjusting a few values we could add support for that trap too. Hopefully we can soon run MacPaint or SuperPaint to test it…

Interestingly, the documentation on CopyMask has conflicting information between Inside Macintosh editions: The later books (IM: Imaging With QuickDraw) indicate that CopyMask scales image to destination rectangle, similar to CopyBits, but older IM:IV describes the correct “Classic” QuickDraw behaviour that it does *not* scale the image.