[GEM Development] Updated Apricot drivers

[Thomas Clayton]

New drivers for the Apricot! Just what I was looking .. .

Oh shucks .. I'd bought a Lemon, instead.

 ;-)

Tom Clayton


--- On Wed, 2/29/12, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> From: John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: [GEM Development] Updated Apricot drivers
> To: gem-dev at simpits.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 7:18 PM
>   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.
> 
> -- 
> John Elliott
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