ZN wrote: > OK, let's see if my email is FINALLY working right! Hooray :-)
> This setting could be fairly easily replaced by a new monitor > definition that would use all the available memory. But which would only result in even queerer resolutions like 1024x1024? Especially with the trend clearly going to LCDs I don't think this is worth it. I only have LCDs in the house and while developing the driver it was difficult enough to test modes like 512x480... > Also, there is a possibility of using a Flash ROM instead of the EPROM that > holds the OS. A half meg device could easily hold QDOS, Minerva and SMSQ/E. > This however needs a bit more work, in particular with the (SIC!) GC/SGC > ROM. Also, there are some things unclear in the way SGC decodes memory > which may make it impossible to program the Flash ROM in the Aurora - it > may need to be programmed on a chip programmer. Which is not really an option, is it? It's probably okay for QDOS and Minerva, they haven't been updated for ages, but with SMSQ/E you'd be back to status quo, having to load it from a device after booting another OS. > One other improvement could be possible assuming a replacement is made for > the INGOT20 programmable chip on the SGC - it would speed up data transfer > between the SGC and Aurora (and indeed other expansion cards that could use > it) by a factor of at least 2. I'd say better invest the time in a complete replacement for the SGC ;-) Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
