From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 11 18:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17046 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (host-e186.tidalwave.net [208.213.203.186] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16947 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net) Received: (from lee@localhost) by st-lcremean.tidalwave.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) id VAA16616; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:18:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19981011211848.A15445@tidalwave.net> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:18:48 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: "Jason C. Wells" , Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Porting Descent (was: Re: age check :) ) Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:54:47PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:54:47PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote: > I have "Porting Unix Software". In any case I will learn more about my > system. One of the things that will have to be worked out is the DOS4GW > protected mode wathyamajigger and handling SVGA doohickey. I guess linux > has an SVGA lib which might be used. Either that or the game would have to > be ported to X to grab the root window. For FreeBSD, you could use libvgl...IIRC, Descent never used anything more sophisticated than 320x200x256, which is a VGA standard mode (libvgl only does standard VGA modes). -- Lee Cremeans -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet and WTnet) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | mailto:lcremean@tidalwave.net http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net | Powered by FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message