From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jun 17 11:38:15 2008 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:28:17 +0300 From: George Nakos X-Mailer: The Bat! (v4.0.18) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <0605150.20080617182817@hol.gr> To: "Peter Persson" CC: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Virtual Consoles (found it :-) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/7494/Tue Jun 17 07:46:03 2008 on takeit02.mail.dc.hol.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ggn@hol.gr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id m5HFcDHg022112 Hello Peter, Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 1:51:15 PM, you wrote: > Hi ppl, > After lots of digging I found the vcons sources in a pretty obvious > place (umich). > I've only browsed them briefly, but before I spend too much time with > it I would like to know in what way it is considered a dirty hack > (apart from the obvous - messing with video hardware etc.). > Anyone? I think that Anders Eriksson made a special driver in assembly in order to accelerate the text display, and the dirty hack part was that it worked on a custom resolution. At least that's what I remember right now... -- Best regards, George mailto:ggn@hol.gr