[OLPC-Games] Pygame

[Julius B. Lucks]

What is Zephyr?  SJ was telling me about this mode of development  
with Etoys, and it sounds ideal to set something like that up for  
pygame developers as well.

Julius

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On May 14, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Yes, they explain the Anti-aliasing quite nicely.
>
> It would be way cool if someone would hack Zephyr to scale the
> display. We have this for Squeak/Etoys and it allows you to develop
> using a 1200x900 frame buffer in a window with a physical size that
> matches the XO. Immensely useful.
>
> - Bert -
>
> On May 14, 2007, at 15:56 , Jonathan Blocksom wrote:
>
>> I've found the picturse on the wiki page
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GTK_for_OLPC
>> to be instructive as well.
>>
>> This is something of a FAQ, it would be great if this info were a
>> little more consolidated.
>>
>> On 5/14/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 14, 2007, at 5:43 , Kent Quirk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greg Ewing wrote:
>>>>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>>>> On May 13, 2007, at 6:35 , Kent Quirk wrote:
>>>>>>> The full screen black and white resolution of the XO is
>>>>>>> 1200x900, the color resolution is effectively lower
>>>>>> The frame buffer resolution is fixed at 1200x900, period. Even in
>>>>>> color mode.
>>>>> So what does "effectively lower" mean? Is it something like the
>>>>> Apple ][ where certain pixels could only be certain colours?
>>>> Something like that. Basically, each grayscale pixel lights up a
>>>> single color, so in order to display arbitrary colors, it's
>>>> necessary to blur the image and draw at a lower resolution. But all
>>>> that happens in the hardware.
>>>>
>>>> It's a bit hard to explain the effect, but the best I've seen is on
>>>> wikipedia:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop
>>>
>>> Or try this simulation:
>>>
>>> http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2007/03/interactive-olpc-xo-display-
>>> simulation.html
>>>
>>> I should update that with the anti-aliasing code I have laying
>>> around ...
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>
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