Steve Sims

the problem with the cursor drawing essentially is that it swaps the current text foreground and background colours within the cursor rectangle. given the capabilities of vdp-gl this was a...

FYI this functionality is all "additive" to the existing API - all existing sample using code will still work unchanged. samples only become "tuneable" when a base frequency is set...

I have a subsequent change that is now present in the Console8 VDP 2.4.0 release that allows for characters to be mapped to bitmaps. I can add the commit that...

NB there are two different sets of FG and BG colours to consider here as text and graphics colours are tracked separately. that's potentially 4 different colours to send across....

I've just come up with an implementation of this in AgonConsole8/agon-vdp#112 @avalonbits if you could take a look at that, assuming you think it's good I'll raise an equivalent PR...

PR now raised here too :grin:

Curiously I wrote a comment on this very functionality earlier today on the AgonConsole8/agon-vdp repo :grin: I've been thinking about implementing this functionality for a little while now. Recent changes...

see AgonConsole8/agon-vdp#103 needs some enhancements to vdp-gl, but I believe I have something that's working

the "copy screen to bitmap" feature was included in AgonConsole8 agon-vdp 2.2.0 release PR #153 adds support for this for Quark. NB this requires an updated/revised vdp-gl

this implementation is not efficient, but it works and provides compatibility for these previously missing plot codes a more efficient implementation will likely come at some point - essentially that...