| Brian Paul | db41d2e | 2002-02-12 03:24:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Mesa 4.0.1 DOS/DJGPP Port version 0.1
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| 6 | First of all...
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| 7 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 9 | This is a DOS port for MESA 4.0.1. I didn't bother to consider any DOS C
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| 10 | compiler other than gcc, so this port was written using DJGPP v2. To be more
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| 11 | precise:
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| 12 | djdev 2.03
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| 13 | gcc v3.0.3
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| 14 | make v3.79
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| 16 | Almost all demos were compiled and ran succesfully on my system:
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| 17 | CPU: Intel Pentium w/ MMX @166 MHz
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| 18 | Mainboard: ViA Apollo VP2 w/ 128 MB SDRAM
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| 19 | Video card: Matrox Millenium I w/ 4096 kB WRAM, Matrox BIOS v3.0
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| 21 | Since I don't have access to any accelerated video hardware, this port is
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| 22 | entirely based on VESA/SuperVGA. My little attempt to use FreeBE/AF ended in
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| 23 | a failure, but that's another story: it seemed to work fine with my older
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| 24 | Matrox Millenium w/ 2MB, and then I got another Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB. The
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| 25 | problem with latter was it had a dead BIOS; I hot-flashed it and made it work
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| 26 | in all environments (Windows 95, VESA, etc) but FreeBE/AF.
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| 30 | Legal:
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| 31 | ~~~~~~
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| 33 | This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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| 34 | License.
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| 36 | Source code written by others is subject to its respective copyright.
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| 40 | libGL (the core):
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| 41 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 43 | Of course, MESA 4.0.1 core sources are required. It will probably work with
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| 44 | MESA 3.5, but not a chance with earlier versions due to major changes to the
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| 45 | MESA driver interface and the directory tree. All should compile succesfully.
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| 47 | The driver has its origins in ddsample.c, written by Brian Paul and found by
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| 48 | me in MESA 3.4.2. I touched almost all the functions, changing the coding
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| 49 | style ;-( Sorry!
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| 51 | Pitfalls:
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| 52 | 1. The current version supports only RGB[A] modes, for it made no sense to me
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| 53 | to endorse color-index (aka palette) modes.
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| 54 | 2. Only double-buffered is allowed because it was simpler to implement at
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| 55 | that moment. Single-buffered will appear soon, especially if I can find a
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| 56 | way to use hardware acceleration.
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| 57 | 3. Another weird "feature" is that buffer width & height must be multiple of
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| 58 | 4 (I'm a lazy programmer and I found that the easiest way to keep buffer
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| 59 | handling at peak performance ;-).
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| 60 | 4. The video mode selector is tricky: it searches for the smallest mode which
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| 61 | will entirely contain the buffer at its current position. If you want a
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| 62 | small buffer in a high-res mode, try to position it very far to the right
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| 63 | (or down). I'd really use some ideas here!!!
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| 67 | libGLU:
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| 68 | ~~~~~~~
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| 70 | Mesa GLU sources are required. Everything should run smooth.
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| 74 | libGLUT (the toolkit):
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| 77 | Well, this "skeletal" GLUT implementation is not mine. Thanks should go to
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| 78 | Bernhard Tschirren, Mark Kilgard, Brian Paul and probably others (or probably
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| 79 | not ;-). I only changed it to be self-standing (Allegro-free). The keyboard,
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| 80 | mouse and timer drivers were inspired from an old project of mine (D3Xl) and
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| 81 | fixed with some Allegro "infusions"; my deeply thanks to Shawn Hargreaves and
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| 82 | co.
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| 84 | My keyboard driver used only scancodes, but since GLUT requires ASCII values
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| 85 | for keys, I borrowed the translation tables (and maybe more) from Allegro.
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| 86 | Ctrl-Alt-Del (plus Ctrl-Alt-End, for Windows users) will shut down the GLUT
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| 87 | engine unconditionally: it will raise SIGINT, which in turn will call the
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| 88 | destructors (let's hope), thus cleaning up your/my mess ;-)
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| 90 | The mouse driver is far from complete (lack of positioning, drawing, etc),
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| 91 | but is enough to make almost all the demos work.
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| 93 | The timer is pretty versatile for it supports multiple timers with different
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| 94 | frequencies. It may not be the most accurate timer in the known universe, but
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| 95 | I think it's OK. Take this example: you have timer A with a very high rate,
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| 96 | and then you have timer B with very low rate compared to A; now, A ticks OK,
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| 97 | but timer B will probably loose precision!
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| 99 | As an addition, stdout and stderr are redirected and dumped upon exit. This
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| 100 | means that printf can be safely called during graphics, but all messages come
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| 101 | in bulk! A bit of a hack, I know, but I think it's better than to miss them
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| 102 | at all.
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| 104 | Window creating defaults: 640x480x16 at (0,0), 8-bit stencil, 16-bit accum.
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| 108 | Installation:
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| 109 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 111 | Unzip into the MESA directory, and type "make -f Makefile.DJ" to compile all
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| 112 | libraries. Long filename support is required during compilation. The examples
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| 113 | are not built automagically (see Pitfalls above).
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| 117 | History:
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| 118 | ~~~~~~~~
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| 120 | v0.1 feb-2002 initial release
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| 121 | v0.2 ..soon..
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| 125 | Contact:
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| 126 | ~~~~~~~~
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| 128 | Name: Borca Daniel
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| 129 | E-mail: dborca@yahoo.com
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| 130 | WWW: http://www.geocities.com/dborca/
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