On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> My experience with VMWare (I have very little of it, but I do remember this) is
> that graphics programs running in DOS, even in 320x200x256, tend to be
> *EXTREMELY* slow. In one old DOS game that I tried out to test VMWare
> (Gobliins2), I had to wait several minutes for a fade !!! Under windows,
> VMWare uses a specialised driver to achieve fast results -- as I understood
> it, it uses the X DGA extension and directly maps the relevant piece of
> shared memory into the guest address space, so in fact there is direct
> communication between the guest and the host window system. Which is FAST.
>
> Though I would still like to have fast "compatibility" modes, if possible,
> things like graphics can be best handled in a specialised manner.
On a slightly different but related subject, what are the plans regarding
the display output? Will it be programmed over X11/DGA? I don't really
have much (any) experience with such things, but wouldn't something like
SDL be a good idea for the display? This would probably make porting
quite a lot easier.
-- Martin Garton. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
