search

maniekx86 / stillalive-os

Portal ending "Still Alive" as operating system
MIT License
55 stars 2 forks source link

640x480 support #6

Closed Skilowi closed 6 months ago

Skilowi commented 7 months ago

Need a 640x480 support here! 20240209_175347 A try to run from floppy.img on 701CS

Ran it early on Compaq in 800x600 and was running flawlessy. Wonderful!

maniekx86 commented 7 months ago

Hi! Adding support for 640x480 mode might be not easy because fitting everything on the screen becomes almost impossible. Actually during development, I thought about that but I realized that I could not fit everything, which led me to opt for the 16-color 800x600 VESA mode instead. Theoretically, it could be possible to implement 640x480, but I would have to use a custom smaller font (there are no smaller than 8x8 fonts which we would need for this in VGA ROM), which I would have to create/copy and implement into code, and well, it could be a little difficult for the existing code base.

Also it's interesting to see how this laptop handles the 800x600 mode.

maniekx86 commented 6 months ago

Closing as there is not much that I can do. 640x480 probably gonna never be supported by this project.