Re: [MiNT] LDG vs. SLB vs. custom OVL-thingies

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 21:50 +0200, Jean-François Lemaire wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:17 +0200, Jean-François Lemaire wrote:
> >> As far as I know, offscreen bitmaps are not implemented in fVDI either so 
> >> I'm surprised to hear you say zView uses them.
> 
> > Are you sure about this? IIRC offscreen bitmaps has been implemented in
> > fVDI years ago. Atleast it wasn't an issue when I used fVDI on my
> > Falcon/Eclipse for a couple of years around 2000.
> 
> There are very few applications that use NVDI's offscreen bitmaps. GEMDict 
> (http://gemdict.org) is one of them. I think Papillon too. What apps did you 
> run at that time that used offscreen bitmaps?

CAB and Papillon atleast. fVDI installs an EdDI cookie during startup,
and zView doesn't start at all if this cookie isn't present.

Jo Even