Fast Print
- Posted by Igor Kachan <kinz at peterlink.ru> Aug 09, 2001
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Dear Eu users: I have posted to contrib page my recent n-font.zip ( http://www.rapideuphoria.com/n-font.zip ). This zip contains my routines for very fast printing of text in mode 18 with any national bitmapped font (20-30x faster than putsxy() on PII, as Rob got), and modified putsxy() which can now load any external bitmapped national font for very nice printing on Dos-32 platform. The method, which I use for the fast printing, allows not only 18 mode, but (slightly modified) 19 mode and 257. 19 mode works very well. A 257 is highest for my machine and, it seems, my videocard can not do the direct mapping of videomemory bank 2,3 and 4 addresses onto high addresses of RAM, so, it seems now, I can not program with direct mapping on Dos-32 with my Oak 1M just now. I'll try to work around this seemed problem later on, after finishing of my Polyglot project. But if anyone of you wants try the simple idea of fast printing in 19 or 257 mode with 256 colors and with per pixel positioning just now, let me know please via this list or privately, and I'll post this non complete work as new version of n-font.zip to contrib page day or two later. This message is the second, the first disappeared in the topica's stomach. Regards, Igor Kachan kinz at peterlink.ru