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That's not just a GUI -- it looks like it supports alpha transparency. That's certainly more than I expected out of a floppy disk.
by apotheon 17y ago
That's not just a GUI -- it looks like it supports alpha transparency. That's certainly more than I expected out of a floppy disk.
- mhd 17y agoWell, I assume they're usiing straight-forward, direct-to-memory framebuffer manipulation. No X protocol to get in the way, no unavailable GPU drivers. Simple alpha transparency shouldn't be hard to do. When did Porter and Duff write their paper, '83?
- kabdib 17y agoYou can do a heck of a lot in 1.44MB. The original Mac had a complete GUI plus some applications running from a 400K floppy, plus a 64K ROM. People forget.
- vidarh 17y agoAdding alpha transparency for a framebuffer based GUI need not take more than a few hundred bytes.
- apotheon 17y agoA few hundred bytes is precious space on a floppy.