a couple things i think are true:
1) The text isn't rendering because i'm only trying to render one column from each character and advancing by one column. in certain situations, the text is rendered by gdi to copy as images and that works fine. this is probably a problem related to interpretation of the major axis/width register.
2) Much of the icon and image rendering in the installer is wrong because i'm supposed to simultaneously scale. Need to peek and see which registers control that.
Aha, actually the small bitmaps were caused by not writing both the high and low half word when the pixel transfer mmio range is written to.
ok, text starting to work. i'm uncertain why it's horizontally smeared, but investigating.
ok better.
i messed up wide across the plane transfers a bit (the blue background image is a 1bpp image)
oh no i ... didn't make a way to type ctrl+alt+del
i need to figure out the keycode sequence
@prozacchiwawa clearly you’ve got a lot of code going there, nice!
https://github.com/86Box/86Box/blob/master/src/video/vid_s3_virge.c
@roytam1 I haven't thanks.
@roytam1 eyeballing it, this looks really complete. lots i can learn or grab.