Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:50:07 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen savers for syscons.... Message-ID: <15186.845931007@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:25:07 PDT." <Pine.SUN.3.95.961021081607.4789A-100000@garcia.efn.org>
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> I'm planning on modifying the screen savers that come with FreeBSD > 2.1.5-R to work with other display devices other than VGA. (like my mono > system) AFter that, I'd like to write a few screen savers that use the > 320x200x256 graphics mode of VGA to create a few decent screen savers. > (let's face it, other than the "green" and "blank" screen savers > everything else is pitiful.) Then please, do it the way we've always discussed it - as a screen-saver-helper's library you can link your screen saver app with and save on all the init/teardown code as well as having a convenient graphics/text library for painting on the screen. Then write your first few screen savers as consumers of this library, as an operational test. Think "after dark module" :-) Jordan
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