Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 13:38:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: didier@aida.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: direct acces to the text screen memory Message-ID: <199510082038.NAA13827@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510080915.KAA00387@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 8, 95 10:14:59 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. for this sort of thing it starts to become attractive to run a local frame buffer in the program and do totoal screen updates every now and then.. (I guess you could say that this is what curses does..) > > 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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