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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: escape from vga hell?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:56:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3947184B.740688D8@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8hrjmo$di6$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>

Martin Harriss wrote:
> ... I wondered if it would be possible to write a driver for
> 16-color vga mode.

Russ and I discussed how this could be done, but somebody has
to *do* it.  It would require two kludges:
	(1) map 8-bit general graphics interface into 4-bit pixels
	(2) provide software cursor


      reply	other threads:[~2000-06-14  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-12  9:57 [9fans] " Martin Harriss
2000-06-14  8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]

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