Re: Uther card works on Apple IIplus with contiki

[Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de>]

Hi Rob,

>I intend to try as soon as I get mine, but I don't think it will.

Indeed.

>For 
>one thing the //e version uses mouse text. I think it will be necessary 
>to patch Contiki for my Videx 80 column and for the lowercase adapter on 
>a ][+. That should be fairly simple once I get the correct version of 
>cc65 running  and compiling Contiki, assuming of course Glenn and Oliver 
>will help.

Hmmm, the Contiki screen drawing code uses the cc65 C-Library. That
library contains highly optimized assembler routines writing directly
to the video memory. Using the videx firmware instead would result in
way to slow screen drawing. Writing directly to the videx video memory
on the other hand is - as far as I know - quite complicated. And even
if you know how to do it your code might easily turn out to be too
large to fit into memory.

Best, Oliver