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Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

Paul Wratt skreiv:


so one possibility could be to standardize the XBIOS API for future
hardware, and at the same time allow current systems to take advantage
of it. A generic revision of said XBIOS API, that maintains this
compatibility. Isn't this part of TOS/ROM, and there for appropriate
for EmuTOS. This would depend on wheather or not Milans can be
updgraded (source access?) and how that affects current software. If
I'd say that it would be best to keep the existing XBIOS-calls as they are, and invent new ones for a unified API. This could be implemented as a TSR with loadable hardware drivers (like GSXB for sound cards) or in the graphics card drivers. 


also opertunity to allow for video ram allocation. Maybe what is
needed, because of modern hardware, is direct framebuffer access, or a
specific framebuffer access, and things like that. (I know VBE
functions can be rather slow)


As long as you don't access the framebuffer directly in XaAES ;-)

Jo Even