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Post #1467224
2026-04-06 03:19 UTC
@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
Replies (2)
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@vaporeon_@glaceon.social 2026-04-06 03:20
@argv_minus_one @GIMP Did anyone ever try to make X11 run on EGA hardware?
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@GIMP@floss.social 2026-04-06 08:07
@argv_minus_one ps, love teh username, argv[-1] was deep magic in early Unix days :-)