RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Scott Lanning
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Greg Haerr wrote: Send me the code if you can find it, I'll look at wrapping it into a driver, but I need someone else to test it, since I've got no herc card either. I have a Hercules. It may be only monochrome, though.

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Alex Holden
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 I had a friend who used a DOS based graphical desktop publishing program on his 8088 with a hercules graphics

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Jakob Eriksson
On Tue, 13 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

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Greg Haerr
On Wednesday, July 14, 1999 2:19 AM, Alex Holden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : 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 : : I had a friend who used

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Greg Haerr
On Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:17 PM, Thor Harald Johansen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: : GEM's the only thing that I can remember that pushed pixels in : those early days on herc You know, GEM's src is available, but I've : heard its **ugly**. That's why I went with the nano-X group.

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-14 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
Could I take a peek just for fun? Luke(Boo) Farrar. On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Jakob Eriksson wrote: On Tue, 13 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?

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-13 Thread Greg Haerr
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

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-13 Thread Patrick LAM
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

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-13 Thread Greg Haerr
: 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

RE: herc microwin support

1999-07-13 Thread Beau Kuiper
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