Re: Deep Thoughts => More than 3200 or More than 16 grays

[johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)]

In article <jmk3.737313028@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>You should however be able to use approach B if you have a VOC installed,
>>because you have two video buffers (one in bank $E0 and one in bank $E1).
>>I started work on it once, but gave up - it had to be under P8 because
>>you can't use the $E0 memory when in GS/OS, and who would want it after
>>all.
>Todd PW has worked on this and brought up the memory problems on GEnie. Matt D
>got into the discussion a bit too; I think he said they would look into making
>this easier in 6.0.1. I believe Todd said a P8 pre-boot was necessay, but then
>you could work under GS/OS. You can allocate the memory you need with an ID
>with master ID 0 and the memory manager won't dispose of it when you reboot.
>(jump in with any corrections, Todd :)
>  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu

Guess who told Todd how to do it :-)
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