* [9fans] escape from vga hell?
@ 2000-06-12 9:57 Martin Harriss
2000-06-14 8:56 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Martin Harriss @ 2000-06-12 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I wonder is it absolutely necessary to have an 8-bit VGA graphic system? I
know monochrome doesn't work any more, but I wondered if it would be possible
to write a driver for 16-color vga mode. If this were possible, it would
allow people to bring the system up on just about any hardware.
I might be persuaded to find the time to look at this, but thus far I'm
having trouble getting the system up. I have a Mach32 which worked very
nicely on the old system, but is no longer supported. I do have a Mach64,
but it complains thus: "undocumented linear aperture size" when I try to bring
it up. (2MB on the card, and I never got it working under the 2nd edition
either.)
Martin Harriss
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* [9fans] Re: escape from vga hell?
2000-06-12 9:57 [9fans] escape from vga hell? Martin Harriss
@ 2000-06-14 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2000-06-14 8:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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
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