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Bunch of questions on FreeDos (VGA modes) (Users)

posted by Misha E-mail, RU, 29.06.2010, 23:42

> > Moreso the number of users isn't as high as you-know-which-others.
>
> And developers. They are gone. Where ? To DOG-BOX and DOG-EMU. Aren't they
> ?
There are a lot of users of DOS, at least here in Russia, but mostly they use ms-dos 6.22. From time to time i see old PCs controlling milling/cutting machines at manufacturing, but they are probably with even older dos (5.0).

> > You may be laughing, i have 1024x576 matrix on my netbook.
>
> So (only) 640x480 should work. What modes does your VESA offer ? Is
> 1024x576 among them ?
 Didnt yet figured out. I have EDID dump, but how can i tell what it means? I will google that.

> > Yes, after bios is loaded everything becomes stretched.
>
> And before ???
 Splash-screen (it contains text also) is not scaled, but right after that everything become scaled.

> > Is it surprise to you?
>
> YES. It could just leave black stripes on left and right.
 That's exactly what I think also. But comp manufacturers think that society is not yet ready for fine graphics and 'quadratic quads' :-D :-D :-D
It was noted that Rayer (i read his post about nVidia cards) and Eric Auer solved this problem somehow. I will try contact them.

> And the height should be 600 of course, not 576.
 THe latter model of this netbook is with 1024x600, so i was a little bit unlucky:-( . Just didnt pay attention to that when was buying:-( .

> > some standard techiques like bringing raw bitmap data to video
> > memory must be defined by default superfast primitive functions
> > which maybe doesn't even require an OS. But these are just
> > my superficial thoughts.
>
> Nope. Just writing into VRAM. No zooming, no YUV, no filled rectangles and
> even less other polygons.
 Isn't that what i said? Maybe my English suffers, by 'primitive funtcions' i didn't mean any 'humanoid' commands like 'draw_something'. I definitly need to study assembly and vga programming to discuss such things.

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