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Hello,

The last time I saw a discussion about this, the main idea was that it
was unacceptable to give control to a SVGA screen because it could be
dificult to regain that control. AFAIK, libvgl only supports low level
VGA/EGA graphics.
There are other interesting projects from the DOS (DJGPP) world. Take a
look, for example at Allegro:
	http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
Soren Schmidt says this could be easy to put on top of libvgl :-).

cheers,

	Pedro.


Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> I know the main idea of freebsd isn't games, but how hard would it be to
> emulate svgalib using our libvgl?
> 
> i can't seem to find any documentation on either project, does anyone have
> any pointers for me?
> 
> thank you,
> Alfred
> 
> On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> >
> > If we really wanted we could port it however svgalib brings a support
> > nightmare. What needs to happen is to tie svgalib to the Xfree86 development
> > in such a way that that low level graphic functions from the XFree86 server
> > become available as a library.
> >
> > If you really want svgalib you can port it.
> >
> >       Cheers,
> >       Amancio
> >
> >
> >