On Dec 23, 2007 11:07 AM, Maciej Jagiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I managed to initialize a VGA screen and clear it without using the BIOS.
>
> I used a public domain C program DarxKies pointed me and a bit from
> JNodes VGA driver (commented out actually). It looks like a hack, it is a
> hack, hard-coded to 640x480x16 only and it does nothing more than a
> clearscrean. My objective for now is to simply display a SharpOS logo.
> I hope I can make it this year and that the code will be useful to expand
> it so it can became a real driver once we know how one should look like.
> btw I don't have svn account. Could someone make one for me, please?
>
This is very exciting, and definitely the kind of direction we need to move
in.
The general rule we are working to implement, is that you have to have a
history of at least a couple acceptable patches before we let you loose in
the repository. (As/If the project grows, the number would increase.) (The
problem being, is that SourceForge SVN repository management sucks, so we
simply just have to be careful - its nothing personal.)
Can you prepare a .patch made from your working copy, so that we might test
and examine the code ourselves? (Obviously, only hearing about the code is
not quite as exciting as getting to taste it...)
And you can let us see the screen shot by by using either a paste-dumping
site like PasteHere.com or a picture sharing site like Flickr or Picasa.
The sound of the code is exciting, but its definitely only a baby step in a
very long and arduous journey. We have to draw up OO abstractions around
video hardware. And we have to write font-drawing code against such an
abstraction. But for the time being, this sounds like it will be something
quite fun to play with.
(SharpOS games are coming to town, oh yea!)
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