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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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