Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:45:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: 43/50-lines? EGA/VGA graphics? Message-ID: <199801190115.LAA00375@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:14:32 CDT." <19980118181432.24976@ct.picker.com>
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> Is 43 or 50 line text mode supported? Or EGA or VGA graphics? No. Adding these would be moderately straightforward. > and running a program I have which switches to 50line mode and loads a nice > font gives this on the xterm I started DOSCMD from: > > Tried to load and activate user defined font Correct. If you want a nicer font, specify it in the DOSCMD configuration (font=<name>), and make it available to your X server. > I also notice that my spreadsheet program doesn't even want to run in 80x25 > text mode if I have it configured for an EGA or VGA (Unknown interrupt 10 > function 30). It has to be setup as CGA. The VGA BIOS implementation is not complete, no. > Regarding graphics, I wouldn't even ask but I saw a mention of VGA graphics > by the -r option in the man page. > > Where is this supported: through emulation in X, or through console mode > only, or not at all in the FreeBSD version? The BSD/OS version allows you to directly map the VGA hardware if you are running doscmd on the console. The '-r' (raw) mode code is largely untested (and probably won't work). > Mention of VGA graphics also prompts the question, are any EGA graphics > modes supported? In sbasica, I notice that the CGA modes don't work > (320x200x4 and 640x200x2), but they're useless anyway. 640x480x16, > 640x350x16, and 320x200x256 would be much more useful. There has been no attempt made to support these modes; in raw mode they could probably be made to work reasonably easily. In X mode, a considerable deal of work would be required to emulate the VGA hardware and BIOS required. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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