[GEM Development] LongGEM is looooooong

[rob at midworld.co.uk]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:36:26AM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 18 August 2012 00:24, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Very nifty! Both the device & getting support for it working. Kudos.
> >>
> >> How did you emulate it, just out of interest?
> >
> >   By starting with the PCE source tree <http://www.hampa.ch/pce/>,
> > making a copy of the MDA device, and tinkering with it until it produced
> > the right sort of graphics mode. I did something similar for the Wyse WY-700
> > a few years back (to test the GEM 1280x800 mono driver); that patch actually
> > ended up in PCE, and has since been greatly improved by someone with access
> > to the original documentation.

I actually have a WYSE 700 sitting at my mother's house (long story).
It is retrievable if you want to poke actual hardware at any point.
It's probably in a lot of ways one of my favourite screens I've used,
certainly my favourite CRT.  I'd still be using it if I had anything to
plug it into that could take the card / had drivers for it.

Rob