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HX GUI improvements (threat fulfilled finally !!!) (DOSX)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 04.08.2007, 12:18

> 1. Add support for VGA 640x480x4bpp mode, besides linear VESA.
> Intentionally suggesting this VGA mode, banked VESA sucks :no: YES, this
> is related to the "CPUID" thread on FASM forum :lol3: I am aware this mode
> uses silly "planes", also 16 colours is not the best, OTOH even original
> Windaube uses it - it is the only available mode unless you
> successfully install a driver, and tends to re-appear when the great
> driver gets wrecked :lol3: Support of this mode would improve
> compatibility with older hardware (very important for DOS ;-) ), and allow
> to bypass an unusably buggy VESA, or verify origin of problems suspected to
> come from the VESA ;-)
very good idea ... if *you* implement these things and can provide a patch ... and please ensure that your extensions don't bloat the binaries by more than 2 kB, else they might be rejected.

> The idea: implement 2 additional buffers, could be used as "parallel
> buffers" (brew screen in the parallel buffer, copy complete screen into
> the LFB, especially useful with the VGA mode) as well as backup buffers
> (write all directly into the LFB as-is).
[snip]

your suggestions sound a bit too hackish for my taste. An additional menu entry which allows to view the contents written to stdout/stderr so far is possible, though.

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