Re: [MiNT] new VDI?

[Tomas Berndtsson <tomas@nocrew.org>]

Johan Klockars <rand@cd.chalmers.se> writes:

> > > > I think it would be more interesting to add VDI support into GGI than
> > > > the other way around.
> > > 
> > > Apart from possibly making it easier to port Atari programs to a GGI
> > > environment (there would still be the 'small' matter of the AES to worry
> ...
> > It would make it easier to port GGI programs to run in TOS. Not that
> 
> Uhm. I think we've mixed up the definitions here.
> My comments about GGI programs under TOS were earlier in my message, and
> I did agree that it might be useful.
> The most reasonable way to implement it would be, as I said, to do it
> on top of the VDI. You could of course do it directly on top of the
> fVDI device drivers, but then you would be locked into hardware supported
> by those.
> 
> By 'VDI support into GGI', I thought you meant the ability to use VDI calls
> on any system supporting GGI. That was what the statement below was about.

Ah, no, I meant GGI being able to call VDI. That's good that we
agree. ;)

Although, we've had small plans to use GGI's graphical routines in our
oVDIsis, instead of our own oFBis library we use now. But then we're
drifting away from MiNT and off to Linux. :)


Greetings,

Tomas