Re: VGA cards on 2gs ?

[aiiadict@hotmail.com (Rich J.)]

"Steve Mentzer" <steve@crackershack.com> wrote in message news:<FYcb8.53$nb1.54184@news.uswest.net>...
> Second, GS/OS was largely hardcoded to use either 640x200 or 320x200 video.
> To get it to work in SVGA resolutions (640x400, 800x600) would require a
> complete rewrite of quickdraw, as well as the font-rendering routines.
> 
> Basically, to sum it up, GS/OS was largely incapable of running resolutions
> higher than 640x200 because it was never designed to!


What happened to project FaceLift?  As I understand it, GS programmers
were trying to disassemble GS/OS and remove the resolution hardcoding,
and reassemble it with the resolution increased (all quickdraw and
font code)...  I think there is more information on Trenco ftp.

For displaying regular GS resolution, a VGA card could interface
directly to the processor socket (like the TWGS), and capture reads/
writes to the graphics memory areas, r/w to the vga memory in a way
that the graphics would fill the screen (magnify, smooth, fix colors, etc.)

Rich
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