On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 13, 1999 12:35 PM, Thomas Stewart
>[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> : I think it is a good idea to look into herc support for microwin? How many
> : 8086's do you know with a VGA card? OR is it a bad idea are 8086's too slow
> : to run microwin?
> :
> 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?
It is not way to slow to run graphical applications damn you! :-) (offence not
intended). I have used a herc card on an XT for ages. It is slow in compasion
to todays machines but I ran many graphical applications
>
> : If anyone else is interested I have some specs and some assembler examples
> : of how to control the herc card.
Could i get them :) The herc card was my favourite (a long time ago)
> Send me the asm examples, I'l take a look. In particular,
> examples in small model that read and write a pixel, and write a horz
> and vertical line are all that's needed.
Ok, i don't have any examples, but I once write a assembly line draw. It uses a
direct buffer (32K) which has an vertical interleave of 4 which complicates
things. Horizontal lines are easy. Vertical lines are somewhat less easy but
still no problem. If you want me to optimised asm routines for the herc card
tell me. :)
Beau Kuiper
