Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:30:02 +0200, Byrial Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> - Whenever you try to write out a character which isn't in the
> hardware font, then the needed character will automatically be
> loaded from the specified font to some unused character slot in
> the hardware font.
I have done such experiment in userspace about two years ago, with the
"unused" approximated by "least recently emitted".
Unfortunately the package it is part of is in deep rewrite, I haven't
touched it for a very long time, and I don't know when I finally put
the whole thing in usable state.
> You lose the possibility to use bright colors using 512 character
> fonts because there only are 16 bits to describe each character
> position on the screen, and when you need an extra bit to select the
> character, you unfortunately have one bit fewer to specify the color.
With framebuffer console 512 character fonts do have bright colors.
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