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The Tracker runs entirely in text mode with some neat remapping of characters
The S3 ViRGE supports 132×43 and 132×25 extended text modes for text applications. This also allows you to emulate terminals requiring 132 columns of text.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)Unlike IBM's original video adapters, the CGA and the MDA, which store character bitmaps in ROM where they can't be altered, the EGA and the VGA store them in RAM.
On obvious difference between Windows 2000/XP and Windows NT 4.0 is the fact that all system messages that appear during the Windows NT 4.0 boot process are displayed in 80×50 text mode, while Windows 2000 and Windows XP display these messages in VGA mode.
SVGATextMode uses extra features on SVGA cards to enhance Linux textmodes. It allows setting of the pixel clock, H/V timings, font size, cursor size, etc, and lets you use your video card and monitor to their full potential in textmode.
If fbcon is detached from the console layer, your boot console driver (which is usually VGA text mode) will take over.
16 different colors can be displayed at the same time. Characters are 8×16 pixels large, and a font consists of 256 characters. A built-in font of this size is always present on a VGA card.
On x86 platforms, the Solaris kernel terminal emulator module (tem) uses VGA text mode exclusively to interact with the vgatext module. The vgatext module uses industry standard VGA text mode to interact with x86 compatible frame buffer devices.
[...] features with some notes: [...] Mouse and character generation functions overall. Text mode let me keep the user interface snappy and memory requirements down, but I bridged the gap with real time character generation beyond what I've seen in other programs.
Jeffrey Lim, the author of the popular Impulse Tracker program
The corresponding byte in plane 1 is used to specify the attributes of the character possibly including color, font select, blink, underline and reverse.
Jeffrey Lim, the author of the popular Impulse Tracker program
The S3 ViRGE supports 132×43 and 132×25 extended text modes for text applications. This also allows you to emulate terminals requiring 132 columns of text.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)SVGATextMode uses extra features on SVGA cards to enhance Linux textmodes. It allows setting of the pixel clock, H/V timings, font size, cursor size, etc, and lets you use your video card and monitor to their full potential in textmode.