From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jun 17 14:11:14 2008 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: References: <0605150.20080617182817@hol.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Maurits van de Kamp Subject: Re: [MiNT] Virtual Consoles (found it :-) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:41:32 +0200 To: mint@fishpool.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jun 2008 17:41:34.0536 (UTC) FILETIME=[62C3A480:01C8D0A1] X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: >> 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... > > Hum, that was long ago, but if I remember correct I just made a > patch to use 8x8 font and some higher resolution (you can never > have too many lines of irc :). All that is long lost though. I probably still have that somewhere. I used those 50-lines vcons, indeed for IRC. :o) I must have the sources somewhere too because I recompiled it to change the colors. > However, I think writing an optimized terminal emulator for GEM > would be more sensible than virtual consoles. Hmm, dunno, I still miss them on my Mac. :) On my TT they were especially cool since vcons didn't support the videocard, so I had the vcons on a tt monitor and GEM on a vga monitor. Looked quite impressive to non-atarians since two-monitor setups were not all that common yet. :o) Maurits.