Re:Break down of a C64 demo effect
by EvanAnderson on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:49PM
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VGA has redefinable character sets. I tried doing some animation with them back in the day, but I ran into some kind of limitation that I don't recall. I was trying to accomplish an animation effect by altering the character definitions in realtime, which I recall being very slow. It never occurred to me to do something like this. Now it'll be everything I can do to stop myself from trying this on an old PC! Goodbye weekend productivity!
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Redefining the character set was how some text-mode programs like the old Norton suite got "graphical" mouse cursors and the like.
If I remember well to overcome flicker with custom Character you has to wait for vsync.
I don't remember what esd the port for that, somethin un the 4p sets... except if you wait for VSYNC like if you were usibg a double framebuffer.
For some ideas about what can be done in text mode on pc, see this demo [1].