[GEM Development] Another video driver

[Shane Martin Coughlan]

Hi John

John Elliott wrote:
>   I've written another video driver - this time, for the Apricot PC/Xi
> computers, at 800x400 monochrome resolution. It can be downloaded from the
> usual place: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/drivers.html
>   What made this one tricky was:
> i) The PC/Xi graphical screen is laid out as 50x50 cells, each 16x8 pixels.
> ii) The BIOS and hardware are decidedly not PC-compatible.
> iii) ... and GEM rather expects PC-compatible scancodes.
> iv) In fact, there are various bits of the Xi BIOS that are frankly pants.
>   But if all goes well, the only problem you'll notice (assuming you have
> suitable hardware) is that there's no key repeat.

Has anyone tested this for you yet?  I confess that I was not able.  I
have nothing even remotely like the correct hardware.

I'm curious about point iv.  What bits of the Xi bios are pants, and why so?

Shane