> >I'd be glad to help out with higher-level stuff,
> That's cool.
>
> >host-beos1.c in the BePlex86 archive).
> That reminds me, does BeOS allow direct VGA and BIOS access? Say, if I
> wanted to program something in assembly. Does BeOS allow this?
Assembly programming and direct hardware access are largely orthogonal,
you know. In other words, you can program whatever you like in assembly
on BeOS (or Linux, etc.) but VGA register access (either programmed in
C or asm) will be hard from a user-mode program because of protections.
For a kernel driver, things are a bit different of course ;) - but
you generally don't have to write it in assembly, except for cases
like plex86's nexus.S.
Cheers,
--Jonathan
