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

["Jean-François Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

> 10 apr 2011 kl. 22.09 skrev Jo Even Skarstein:
> > CAB and Papillon atleast. fVDI installs an EdDI cookie during startup,
> > and zView doesn't start at all if this cookie isn't present.

CAB uses offscreen bitmaps? First time I hear this. Anyway, any app can 
install an EdDI cookie. It doesn't mean a thing.

> Offscreen bitmaps in fVDI are either broken or bogus. It's possible that
> there was some experimental implementation of it 10 years ago, but fVDI
> needs a lot of work in this area if it is to become a useful alternative
> to NVDI. I tried opening offscreen bitmaps on fVDI, and it fails. That was
> about a year ago though. Might be driver specific, but then it should
> create bitmaps in fastram instead - which it doesn't.

I could get offscreen bitmaps semi-working by running Enhancer.prg alongside 
fVDI but the result was horrible (with ARAnyM). A clear indication that the 
issue resides in fVDI, not the driver.

JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire