Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-23 Thread Javier GutiƩrrez Chamorro
If anyone's is interested I just forked your Ullrich von Bassewitz's SVGA BGI drivers on Github, and applied some optimizations and updates: https://github.com/javiergutierrezchamorro/SVGABGI/tree/main/svga Regards. El mar, 22 dic 2020 a las 9:29, Danilo Pecher (<

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Danilo, > It happens on both Virtualbox and my ancient Compaq NX-8220. And > indeed, as hinted by several folks, it seems to be connected to fdapm. I hope using the FDAPM ADV:REG setting instead of the FDAPM APMDOS setting solves the speed issue? See the readme ;-) Regards, Eric

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-22 Thread Danilo Pecher
It happens on both Virtualbox and my ancient Compaq NX-8220. And indeed, as hinted by several folks, it seems to be connected to fdapm. On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 20:03, Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Danilo, > > > I still have legal copies of Turbo Pascal 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 and Borland > > Pascal 7.0, so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 12/21/2020 3:58 AM, Danilo Pecher wrote: BGI ran like a three-legged pregnant hippo in a mud pit, mainly because it used the INT10h functions. Sorry, but that is pretty much nonsense. All the drivers that I know used direct memory/register access, with the exception of the VESA drivers,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Danilo, > I still have legal copies of Turbo Pascal 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 and Borland > Pascal 7.0, so if there's interest, I'd be willing to take a look at > them to see if there's any insects to weed out. It might be interesting only, if some existing project already relies on these drivers. The,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread tom ehlert
> Speaking of which. I noticed that pretty much all Borland Test-mode > IDE's for Turbo-C, Turbo Pascal and Turbo-Prolog react very sluggishly > in FreeDOS while working okay on MS-DOS and PTS-DOS. Anyone got a clue > what might cause this? is FDAPM loaded? in some cases it is reported to cause

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Guti
:lunes, 21 de diciembre de 2020, 12:58:18 Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license Archivos: --===-- BGI ran like a three-legged pregnant hippo in a mud pit, mainly because it used the INT10h

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-21 Thread Danilo Pecher
z/bgi.php) > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Remitente:Robert Riebisch > Destinatario: freedos-devel mailing list > Fecha:domingo, 20 de diciembre de 2020, 20:02:21 > Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-20 Thread Guti
list Fecha:domingo, 20 de diciembre de 2020, 20:02:21 Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license Archivos: --===-- (To whom it may concern.) In April 2020 I got in touch with Jordan

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-20 Thread Danilo Pecher
I still have legal copies of Turbo Pascal 3.0, 4.5, 6.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0, so if there's interest, I'd be willing to take a look at them to see if there's any insects to weed out. Speaking of which. I noticed that pretty much all Borland Test-mode IDE's for Turbo-C, Turbo Pascal and

[Freedos-devel] Jordan Hargraphix SvgaBGI goes MIT license

2020-12-20 Thread Robert Riebisch
(To whom it may concern.) In April 2020 I got in touch with Jordan Hargrave, who wrote SVGA BGI drivers for Turbo C/Turbo Pascal/Borland C++ until the mid-1990s: Jordan wrote on 19 December: # Hi Robert, If