Chris Reuter wrote:
GEM was released under the GPL when Caldera bought Digital Research. The Watcom C compiler is due to be released as open-source software as well, although the current maintainers are still trying to remove third-party-licensed code.
Now that's a blast from the past. The Atari ST (running GEM) was the computer on which I learned GUIs and event driven C programming (with the Mark Williams C compiler) when I was a kid. I recently got an Atari ST emulator running on my laptop and noticed something curious...there was a menu option on the desktop called "Blitter" which IIRC sped up the graphics display. I wonder if anyone here knows if this has any relationship to BitBlt?
- Stephen