Re: Rotating the Zoomer screen 90-degrees?

Andrew (andrewb@nidlink.com)
Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:09:17 -0800

Two questions? when the Zoomer starts up ther screen is in a much higher
resolution (any way to get back to that?) Doesn't the book reader do
somthing
with the screen?

I am told that using a pine account with your ISP a regular COM program
should
work to access your email account.

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> From: Aaron Wallace <aaron@ifact.com>
> To: pen-geos@lists.grot.com
> Subject: Re: Rotating the Zoomer screen 90-degrees?
> Date: Wednesday, January 29, 1997 9:57 AM
>
> At 10:56 AM 1/29/97 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >GEOS is so configurable that it should be possible for a good programmer
> >or for Geoworks people to do that (they have to rewrite some libs, eg
UI.GEO
> >and the screen coordinates management, I guess).
> >
> >It could be very interesting to do that but what for (terminal
emulation...) ?
>
> Actually, all you'd probably need is a different screen and pen driver.
> The problem would be performance--it's much slower to scroll 1-bit
screens
> "against the grain" of their memory layout than with it. This is
probably
> why the OmniGo uses a hardware flipping method.
>
> Also, most of the Zoomer software is hardcoded for the current screen
size,
> so you'd have to flip and reboot between using landscape and portrait
mode.
>
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