Subject: Re: Really big X displays
To: David Jones <dej@eecg.toronto.edu>
From: None <mw@eunet.ch>
List: amiga-x
Date: 06/29/1995 09:13:20
> XFree86 had a neat feature: you could set up a 1024x1024 virtual screen
> which was scrolled within the 640x480 physical screen size.  The scrolling
> was smooth, obviously done by changing the start of the frame buffer
> in the VGA registers.

Well, you don't have to go that far... my retina server supported this from
day 0 .. :-)

> Something similar can be done on the Amiga, esp. with 2 MB of Chip RAM.
> Anyone up to the task?

Should be feasible, but I'm not into CC-programming:-)

-Markus
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