nanogui: NanoX version 0.3 released
Subject:
Re: NanoX version 0.3 released
From:
Alexander Peuchert ####@####.####
Date:
10 May 1999 17:00:38 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9905101858230.20638-100000@rumburak>
Whow ....
This sounds like amazing work, dude.
Can't wait to try it out ...
... after my diploma thesis :-(
- alex
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> Fellow NanoX interested parties:
>
> I have today finished work on nanoX version 0.3, which includes the following features:
>
> o completely seperate driver api and drivers for screen, mouse and keyboard.
> All drivers are in a drivers/ subdirectory. It's really easy to write a driver set for some
> strange box, providing you know how the strange box's low-level graphics code should
> work.
>
> o low level screen driver doesn't need to know anything about clipping, and
> can run with as little as DrawPixel implemented. All common code, such
> as Bresenham line draws and circles, ellipses, etc and clipping is in the common
> mid level nanoX code.
>
> o Linux drivers include support for BOGL screen libraries, GPM mouse
> and /dev/tty keyboard support. (we still can't use unmodified BOGL libraries, I'm working
> with Ben on this)
>
> o MSDOS driver support. I wrote a 640x480x16 color driver in about 45 minutes.
> NanoX now runs on DOS! (OK, I did this only to see how portable nanoX is, and the
> mouse driver still isn't written) This still uses MSC graphics library. I'll have the bios
> int10 version driver done shortly, which will allow nanoX to run on ELKS! We should
> have an ELKS version shortly... BTW, the nanoX kernel is around 20k on DOS...
>
> o Full cursor clipping is now working, which makes cursor
> movement over graphical output work well. (This version still doesn't quite
> draw rectangles properly, more on coordinate systems in another email...)
>
> o Many bug fixes
>
> Greg
>
>
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