Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!samsung!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!lloyd From: L.Parkes@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Progress report Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 13:50:48 GMT References: <29883@bcsaic.UUCP> Sender: news@comp.vuw.ac.nz (News Admin) Organization: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 41 X-Local-Date: 15 Aug 90 06:50:48 PDT In-Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP's message of 11 Aug 90 02:08:36 GMT In article <29883@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes: I've been able to spend a little time lately on Minix, and here's a brief summary of where I'm at. Ditto I installed Ken Hendrickson's 43-line EGA patches recently. It took a bit of care, 'cause some of Ken's changes collided with Gordon's, especially in console.c. It turns out that Ken's code puts my clone VGA in 50-line mode. I spent the night before last fixing things so everybody knows the screen is 50 lines long, and it's working well. Ken's patches also set the interrupt character to Same happened on my VGA, it will always do this to a VGA. I have added some code to detect the size of the screen after the font is set. This means that you can use 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 fonts without having to fiddle with the SCR_LINES macro (or whatever it is). Because the number of lines on the screen is now determined at run time (you may have CGA, EGA or VGA) SCR_LINES is now #defined to be a variable name. Some code in start.x will change the value in the variable from 25 to whatever if necessary. As soon as I have enough spare time at home (5 mins or so) to boot up Minix I will send my updated patches to Ken, so that he can check them out. Oh yes, before I forget I also enabled underlining on EGA/VGA systems. This requires palette modifications to be readable, so you will lose (upto) two colours. This is still not very general yet. And thank you, Andy, for Minix! This is fun! Ditto again Lloyd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lloyd Parkes | lloyd@comp.vuw.ac.nz | ------------------------------------------------------------------------