Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)]

In comp.sys.atari.8bit Thomas Richter <thor@cleopatra.math.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> I wouldn't guess so, it depends on how smart you print characters. I've
> here a (pretty simple) terminal program at hand that uses 80 column graphics
> by the Antic F mode. Characters are of course rendered to the screen the
> "traditional" way, but the main speed break is scrolling if you perform it
> "the lazy way". With some smart display list tricks, you can scroll a 320x192
> screen without moving a single byte.

Well, you move a single byte or two. ;^)

Yeah, I would've mentioned this, too, but since it's a windowing system
(and there are icons, window widgets, and a 'desktop background'), this kind
of trick isn't very useful, unfortunately.

If only DLIs were 2-dimensional.  (Like the 7800, if I'm not mistaken)


> The terminal program in question does not
> implement a VT-xxx terminal, tough, but a private terminal protocol for a
> remote debugger I wrote years ago for the Amiga (using the Atari as remote
> terminal, that is). Maybe I can still dig out the sources if this is of any
> interest.

Itay Chamiel's "Ice-T" does it this way, too.


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