DraSelXL7h ago
GIMP

For those who wondered, yes, the “news” about GIMP finally supporting EGA 16-colour mode was an April Fool joke, along with the new memory-efficient 0-bit coluor mode.

#GIMP #AprilFools #april_fools #AprilFoolsDay

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Show threadARGVMI~1.PIF8h ago

@GIMP

I mean, there isn't really any natural law that says there can't be a #Wayland compositor that runs on #EGA hardware.

It would have the same chunky-to-planar-conversion overhead that complicated attempts to port #Doom to the #Amiga, but it's not impossible.

#retrocomputing

Show threadVaporeon  ☭8h ago
@argv_minus_one @GIMP Did anyone ever try to make X11 run on EGA hardware?
Show threadGIMP7h ago
@vaporeon_ @argv_minus_one i doubt it. By the mid 1980s there were Unix ports to the 80286 and, late, 80386, that could run X, e.g. Interactive Systems Corp. (ISC), but they needed a higher-end graphics card.
Show threadGIMP3h ago
@argv_minus_one ps, love teh username, argv[-1] was deep magic in early Unix days :-)
Show threadkepstin7h ago
@GIMP the 1-bit mode mentioned as an aside might actually be interesting to have tho.