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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!prism!gt8134b From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <141787@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 28 Feb 94 23:31:43 GMT References: <760732951snz@valent.demon.co.uk> <JKH.94Feb8224637@whisker.hubbard.ie> <2jf56m$7r@u.cc.utah.edu> <hastyCL2opx.I0x@netcom.com> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 27 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <2jf56m$7r@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: >>In article <JKH.94Feb8224637@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >>>In article <760732951snz@valent.demon.co.uk> mark@valent.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) writes: >>> Apparently id's Dave Taylor (working in his spare time) has it running >>> under XFree86 2.0 (using the shared memory extensions). >> >>>Knowing what DOOM does to achieve shading and motion effects on a standard >>>VGA card, I have a REALLY HARD TIME believing that this could work under >>>X! This seems like serious rumor material to me! >Actually, one could get access to the VGA registers for a process >and dispense with X for local access :) I'm somewhat surprised that Dave didn't choose to use svgalib, a library that supports many SVGA cards and modes and all VGA modes. It also supports up to 16M colors on truecolor-capable cards. However, they're peobably so sick of DOS and compatibility problems that they just left all the hardware muck up to the X server. That way, any problems that come up can be answered with "not our fault." -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'