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Re: The return of the lcg framebuffer (now accelerated)



  Wow.  Very, very nice!!

           -Dave

On 11/02/2017 04:57 PM, Björn Johannesson wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> After giving Miod Vallat some of Blaz's disassemblys he finally got the hardware engine to do something. :)
> 
> Using his code I also, finally, got the darn thing to do something.
> https://twitter.com/herdware/status/925814292770942977
> 
> After a bit more tinkering I got some acceleration to actually work.
> https://twitter.com/herdware/status/926155237001441282
> At the moment only copyrows and eraserows are accelerated.
> It's not fast but still more than twice as fast as the old software scroll.
> 
> I don't have a place to upload a kernel though and the code is too ugly for words.
> If someone wants to try/host my testkernel contact me. (KA46 & KA48 _only_)
> 
> It has only been tested on my VLC but perhaps it works on 4000/60 too.
> 
> /B
> 


-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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