Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/04/00:37:14
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> I discussed that a couple of month ago, if you make a TVison port using Curses
> you'll need a mainframe to get a relative good speed in the screen.
> On the other hand you can rewrite TVision to be more efficient and eat more CPU
> instead of making so much screen output, but that's a real nightmare. Do you
> have any idea of how complex are the output routine for this kind of programs?
that's the point i really was making.. i did read your discussion a couple
months back, i've done programming under curses, i know how slow it is for
the type of thing tvision does.
that's why i asked if direct video writes are feasible. true, people on
terminals can't use it; so what? the Linux SVGALIB can't be used by people
on terminals, that doesn't stop its being popular.. or usable. true,
direct video writes are at odds with the rest of the Unix world. same
thing with SVGALIB, but people use it.
i know how complex tvision is, that's why my suggestion (wondering?) was,
would it be possible to reimplement ALL the <conio.h> functions? tvision
is built on top of these, so theoretically if <conio.h> is reimplemented
(i.e. like it's done in the libpc.a of DJGPP) things should work... right?
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