Re: forgot something..

To: Thomas Davis <Thomas.Davis@mnscorp.com>
Subject: Re: forgot something..
From: scott@laird.com (Scott Laird)
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:00:31 -0800
cc: linux-connectix@crynwr.com
From nas.com!hardy.laird.com!hardy.laird.com!scott Mon Jan 1 23: 23:35 1996
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:52:17 CST." <199601020252.UAA16523@lanshark.mnscorp.com>
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> My system has a bi-directional lpt port, so everything I've been trying
> is as fast as possible..
> 
> The quickpict does a inw(0x378), and then plays with it.
> 
> Next step for me is to figure out how to decode the data grabbed
> that way.

It's pretty straightforward in 4bpp mode -- each nibble is a pixel, 
with the high nibble coming first.  In 6bpp mode, the pixels are packed 
in the obvious way, that is the first nibble read plus the upper half 
of the second are the first pixel, and so on.


Scott
-- 
Scott A. Laird   |  "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615"
scott@laird.com  |                - Nigel on his new 64-bit computer

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forgot something..

From: Thomas Davis <Thomas.Davis@mnscorp.com>

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