[Oberon] Large displays in Emulated RISC Oberon

[Charles Perkins]

Thanks! Yes, that's a natural next step. 

Of course that takes us further from compatibility with the FPGA risc but 
a sufficiently motivated individual could make a new FPGA system with 
more memory, a larger frame buffer, etc.

One can even imagine someone programming an FPGA with two or 
four risc cores for an interesting experiment in minimal multiprocessing.

Chuck
 
On Jun 15, 2014, at 2:42 AM, volkert at nivoba.de wrote:

> Chuck, this is cool. I think the next step should be more memory for the 
> oberon system.
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> BW,
> Volkert
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> Am 14.06.2014 01:05, schrieb Charles Perkins:
>> I wished to be able to use the full resolution of my laptop (1440x900) from within the emulated Oberon system, so I have created patches for Peter de Wachter's oberon-risc-emu program which will (after patches are applied) create a new frame buffer in higher memory.
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>> Smaller screens still work the way they did before and I think that Oberon looks awesome at full screen and high resolution on my MacBook Air!
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>> I have also modified Display.Mod and made a one-line change to Input.Mod to allow Oberon to use that new frame buffer when resolutions are greater than 1024 horizontal or 768 vertical.
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>> I have tested resolutions as high as 1920x1080 on an external monitor, it should work all the way up to 2048x2048. I have not tested on platforms other than the Mac.
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>> The changes can be found at: https://github.com/charlesap/io
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>> Chuck
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