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Re: Things I would like to see E/L




> 1.  Move the thing out of Xwindows.. I know this has been suggested already
>     but I think the speed improvement would be really good..
>     There is nothing wrong with the Xwindows version- If I want more
>     speed maybe I just need a faster computer..

   This suggestion has appeared many times on this list.  I recall Cliff
saying that the display routines were abstracted enough that this wouldn't
be too big of a deal.  How beneficial would a SVGA lib version be, though?
I've been very unimpressed by SVGAlib so far, I may have an old version,
but it won't run in anything but 320x240.

> 2.  I would really like to see sound- even if it is just sound blaster
>     compatability..  Linux can play midis, waves, mods and several other
>     music formats- sound would be really neat on tetris max and some
>     other games..

    I think everyone wants to see sound. :-)

> 3.  I would also like a selector screen to choose how many colors
>     how much refresh, whether or not you have a private colormap-
>     amount of memory.. etc etc..  beginning to sound like
>     an extensions folder to me..

Shift-Lalt-5? This does much of what you suggest. You can't select memory
or privatecmap options (I keep suggesting a defaults file...), but they're
significantly different that refresh, color depth, etc.

> 4.  Mac disk formatting in Linux.. that might be a tougher one..

  No. I remember Cliff stating it was just a matter of writing a blank
disk image to the floppy. I think this is just a feature that has to be
gotten around to.

--Jered



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