On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> Well - you've got a good point - an 8086 is probably *way* too slow
> to run graphics programs of any merit. However, I would like to add
> a screen driver for hercules. Is hercules only monochrome, or does
> it support color? Do you know how the screen memory is accessed?
> Do you think you could write the driver?
Monochrome adapters probably wouldn't take too much CPU to support. The
most used type of Hercules card was 720x348x2 (with lots of clones) --
perhaps this was the most common type of video card for a few years --
although there was also a Hercules Color Card (which doesn't seem to have
caught on as well).
I have code for accessing the screen on a Hercules card around here
somewhere, if no one else has it. I don't think I actually have a
working Hercules card, though.
pat
