Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

shaul wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:51:28PM +0800, ivan wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Mmmh. What do you need this for?
> > >
> > > Primarily learning but I would like a few very simple highly optimised
> > > graphics routines for my machine.  Line, circle, box and fill for e.g.
> >
> 
> Although you have already decided to use svgalib, wouldn't ncurses and/or
> slang be more appropriate and/or easy to use and/or more efficient ?
> What are the differences between svgalib, ncurses and slang anyway ?
> 
>         Thank you.
> 


	Uh, well for one thing, ncurses and slang are text-mode console
libs, while svgalib is a low-level *graphics* lib originally
written for VGA systems, e.g. 320x200 at 8 bit color depth, but
has since been improved with higher res support for some video
cards.


-- 
Ed C.