Subject: rendering & video modes

From: [email-masked] (Lance Norskog)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 20:46:22 PST

Keeping the screen to 320x200 allows the software to avoid
switching the video paging address registers.  I'm interested
in larger screen modes where 4 (640x400) or 6 (960x720)
separate rend386 windows appear at once, with only one active
at a time.  This is somewhat silly for eyephone operations,
but would help with a desktop information environment.  With
enough RAM we can even do stereo buffering for the whole 
screen; 1024x768x16 is <512kb of VGA ram.  Moving the mouse
would turn on different screens.  Actually, we can do
overlapping 320x200 windows this way because the VGA registers
let you set the X & Y ram addresses.

It's a shame I don't like overlapping windows...

Lance Norskog