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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: DOOM for X Message-ID: <hastyCM0K96.1zo@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2jf56m$7r@u.cc.utah.edu> <hastyCL2opx.I0x@netcom.com> <141787@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 01:31:52 GMT Lines: 39 In article <141787@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert Sanders) writes: >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." More like is less of a port issue from their NextStep development environment. Probably their biggest headache should be the linux sound driver;simply, because they don't have one under nextstep -- the rest should be a simple exercise for them. If you chose to flame, bear in mind that DOOM did a very nice job on toasting me several times under dos. :-) Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X