"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> If you are interested in this you should just give it a try - merely have
> your VM answer true if queried for a negative display depth in
> primitiveTestDisplayDepth and you'll be able to go forth and back between
> little and big endian pixels.
Err, well it almost works. Aside from the expected colour mapping fiddle
that would be needed it looks ok _until_ I move the mouse. Then the
display goes black and scattered parts flash to 'proper' look and back
to black. Very odd indeed. I have been able to narrow it down to
whatever image code is invoked when the display depth is -ve rather than
the non-reversing VM code. 

tim
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