Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 10:14:59 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: didier@aida.org (Didier Derny) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: direct acces to the text screen memory Message-ID: <199510080915.KAA00387@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951008092824.926A-100000@aida> from "Didier Derny" at Oct 8, 95 09:30:08 am
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As Didier Derny wrote: > > Is there any way to write directly in the text screen memory. > > I'm writing a commodore 8000 emulation and the use of ANSI sequences > to write in the screen is extremely slow. There is a way (you could mmap() the frame buffer), but using something like curses is strongly recommended instead. This way, your emulation will automagically also run inside an xterm or on a serial terminal. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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