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- To: jtramp@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Tramp)
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- Subject: Re: Things I would like to see E/L
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- Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 15:25:19 EDT
- From: "Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu" <jered@MIT.EDU>
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- > 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.
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- > 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. :-)
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- > 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..
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- 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.
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- --Jered
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