On 17 Jan 2008, at 08:02, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:49, Roberto Padovani wrote:
Given that I don't have Delphi, suppose that company X ask me to make
a software for them. I might give them the software, with full source
code and a GPL licence note every here and t
A task I used to do regularly when programming in Turbo Pascal
was to read the BIOS Rom Font.I first picked this up to make
"Splash" Screens for Text Mode programs that wrote out big
several lines high using the character it was made of
F P CCC
FPP C
F
On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> to be root ?
Yes. Yes.
"/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"
can be read from), but this device which is only accessible to root.
> Ho
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A task I used to do regularly when programming in Turbo Pascal
> was to read the BIOS Rom Font.I first picked this up to make
> "Splash" Screens for Text Mode programs that wrote out big
> several lines high using the character it was made of
>
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > to be root ?
>
> Yes. Yes.
>
> "/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"
> can be re
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:54, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2008, at 08:02, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:49, Roberto Padovani wrote:
> >> Given that I don't have Delphi, suppose that company X ask me to
> >> make a software for them. I might give them the softwar
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > > to be root ?
> >
> > Yes. Yes.
> >
> > "/dev/mem" sho
On Jan 16, 2008 2:42 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The suspect routines are mostly in the classes unit.
> In the component streaming system, to be exact. This code is of course
> available in the GPL-ed CLX... Note also that the CLX is under some kind
> of dual license: GPL o
On 17 Jan 2008, at 12:18, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:54, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 17 Jan 2008, at 08:02, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
But given it is GPL your customer may decide to redistribute the
source,
as you gave him explicit permission with the GPL to do so. It would
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address
into a 32 bit pointer to access these fonts ?
This font is not accessible. Linux does not allow direct hardware
access unless you write a
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > a fallback text output method if font files aren't available.
> >
> > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have
> > to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address
> > into a 32 bit pointer to access these fon
On Thursday 17 January 2008 09:36:39 pm Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> covered on the Lazarus Wiki. I believe I saw something there a while
http://www.freepascal.org/
The very first section (overview) of the freepascal home page
already contains links for mac fans : http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.
On 15/01/2008, Ezequiel Tacsir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac
> (10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to have it
> running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial for installation, running
> and so on, I
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