[GEM Development] Updated Apricot drivers

[Liam Proven]

On 1 March 2012 01:18, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>  Against the vanishingly rare possibility that anyone but me is interested
> in GEM drivers for the Apricot Portable or F-Series computers:
>
> <http://www.seasip.info/Gem/drivers0.html> has reconstructed source for the
> Apricot Portable / F-Series drivers I've been able to find. It also has
> updated versions that fix the rendering bugs I've mentioned previously
> (see the screenshots at <http://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/apricot.html> ).
>
> <http://www.seasip.info/Gem/drivers3.html> has FreeGEM versions of the same
> drivers, based on the GEM/3 driver tree.
>
>  The Portable and F-Series drivers are the ones I've mentioned before, that
> generate code on the fly for lines and bit blits. So, for example, if you
> wanted to draw a line on the screen, the driver would create a subroutine
> to draw that specific line, and then run it. Whether it actually boosts
> performance I couldn't say, but someone must have had a lot of fun coding
> it.

Impressive stuff, John. Nice work.

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