> even though he wasn't asking, i'll drop this point on you guys.
> anything that directly accesses the video hardware will break the
> second you try to port it to a SUN machine.  SUN does not allow
> direct framebuffer access,

This is simply false.  _Some_ Suns may have framebuffers that can't be
treated this way.  But as a blanket statement it is definitely not so.

The Consortium X server memory-maps the framebuffer and draws on video
RAM directly for many of the Sun servers - all Sun-3 versions, I
believe, and most of the Sun-4 versions (certainly the low-end hardware
that's old enough to run SunOS).  I have written (and run :-) an
asteroids game for NetBSD/sparc that mmap()s the video RAM of the bwtwo
and scribbles on it directly.

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