From: Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VBE 1.2/2.0+ functions for Plan9
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:21:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e35c062041129122170cedf5e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74f32320e9b5042e0d79f57b4c38aeca@vitanuova.com>
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:13:26 0000, rog@vitanuova.com <rog@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> life would have been much easier if i had been able to figure
> a way of invoking 16-bit BIOS calls from 32-bit real mode,
> but i failed. anyone know how? other systems seem to manage it.
You might want to check out Bluebottle:
http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/
The VESA support seems to be rock-solid, though I haven't dug through
the drivers to see how it's implemented. I recommend downloading the
ISO and booting it live to peek through the sources.
Though the UI will take a little getting used to, the Oberon code
should be easily read by anyone even semi-familiar with Limbo, Java,
Modula or Pascal. Speed seems to be more dependent on the video
card's implementation than anything (Nvidia seems to have especially
fast VESA support).
I thought earlier grumbles about VESA support were about hardware vs.
software cursors and some related gymnastics?
-Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 16:44 Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-25 17:13 ` rog
2004-11-25 18:57 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-29 20:21 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2004-11-30 12:51 ` rog
2004-11-30 10:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-30 11:08 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-11-30 11:21 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-30 11:28 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-11-30 11:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-26 3:03 Fwd: " Bob Hartley
2004-11-26 3:04 ` boyd, rounin
2004-11-26 3:08 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-26 4:19 ` Bob Hartley
2004-11-26 5:52 ` Devon H. O'Dell
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