The colors 0..7 appear in high intensity and the colors 8..15 blink using
low / high intensity. Blinking is not present in Bochs yet. For now, the 3rd
bit of the attribute will be inverted.
- attribute controller mode control register: only a change of the internal
palette size bit should force a redraw
- skip screen update if video is disabled
plane enable and color select
- a screen update is necessary after updating the charmap
- lots of missing parentheses added (found after disabling VGA_TRACE_FEATURE)
- BX_DEBUG and BX_INFO messages improved
- update function: the 'for' loop now initializes and increments the variables
xti and yti
- VBE: banked writes are now ignored in LFB mode, LFB writes are ignored in
banked mode (based on SF patch #742782)
- calculation of the VBE virtual height for >8bpp fixed
- visible screen size must be recalculated after changing the virtual width
- modify standard VGA register when enabling a VBE mode (some test applications
expect this behaviour)
- BX_INFO messages in the VBE code fixed
* configure.in: readline check is only necessary if the debugger is enabled
(patch from Jeroen Janssen)
* iodev/Makefile.in: dependencies updated after adding gameport device
- don't clear the VBE memory if the new flag VBE_DISPI_NOCLEARMEM is set
- vbe_bpp_multiplier for the 4bpp mode set to 1 (usually unused, but this value is save)
(using 72 Hz vertical frequency). The vertial retrace phase is often used for
vga register or memory manipulations to reduce screen flickering.
- update(): check variable vga_mem_updated before everything else
(without localized variables)
- start address support for CGA modes added
- start address support for mode 13h completed
- clearing the text snapshot is not necessary after a start address change
(set needs_update to 1 in graphics mode only)
* changed all %ll format descriptions to FMT_LL macro so that
Microsoft Visual C works correctly (it uses %I64)
* missing type conversions added
* cdrom.cc: variable types for win32 fixed
* removed some unused variables in eth_win32.cc and harddrv.cc
* added missing includes in make_cmos_image.c and niclist.c
* support for different resource compilers added (rc / windres)
* bochs must be linked with advapi.lib for registry access
* optimization flag changed to /Ox
* symbols BX_HAVE_MKSTEMP, BX_HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H and HAVE_ETHERTAP must be set to 0
* BX_HAVE_REALTIME_USEC definition fixed for MSVC
* vmware3.h: definition of COW_Header fixed for MSVC
- maximum number of text lines changed to 100 (CGA "graphics" mode 160x100)
- size of text snapshot buffer changed to 32k (size of MDA/CGA text memory)
- removed obsolete macro CGA_TEXT_ADDR()
It's not clear what the correct behavior is in that case, (we
clearly don't currently handle it correctly) so
simply avoiding it is the easiest thing to do. As such, this
option is ON by default.
and implemented in SDL
* sequencer controller register 0x01 bit 0 controls the width of the characters.
This value is used to calculate the screen width.
* attribute controller register 0x10 bit 2 controls the appearance of graphics
characters (ASCII 0xC0 - 0cDF). A change of this value forces a charmap update
to rebuild the font bitmaps.
* the SDL display library uses the new feature described above
* the other display libraries recalculate the screen width, since they are using
a fixed font width of 8 for now.
- VGA: attribute controller register 0x10 bit 2 (enable_line_graphics) does not
switch the palatte in CGA mode
ATTENTION: the Elpin VGA BIOS uses a delay of 280 vertical retraces after
displaying the copyright text
- changes to the horizontal or vertical pel panning registers force a redraw of
the screen
- screen update problems in text mode fixed
- sort order of the CRT register write cases changed
- fixed calculation of the byte offset for standard VGA modes if line compare
is active
- force a resize of the screen after a change of the display mode (text/graphics)
- mem_write(): skip the rotation of the cpu byte if 'data_rotate' is 0
You can now choose for each disk on the ata interfaces the
disk mode, between :
- flat : one file flat layout
- concat : multiple files layout
- external : developer's specific, through a C++ class
- dll : developer's specific, through a DLL
- sparse : stackable, commitable, rollbackable
- vmware3 : vmware3 disk support
- undoable : flat file with commitable redolog
- growable : growing file
- volatile : flat file with volatile redolog
- z-undoable : gziped flat file with commitable redolog
- z-volatile : gziped flat file with volatile redolog
A new "bxcommit" utility can merge commitable redologs to
flat images.
If set, the screen size will be horizontally doubled in CGA and standard
VGA modes.
- doublescan feature for CGA mode 320x200x4 added
- removed trailing spaces in VBE update code
the address offset between two lines on the screen in all VGA modes.
It depends on the CRTC offset register value and the address mode (byte, word,
dword)
- moved screen update code to the end of the write handler. If a register change
should force a redraw of the screen, the variable 'needs_update' must be set
to 1.
- changes to the attribute controller palette index register now force a redraw
of the screen
- modeX: calculation of the tile numbers fixed
