real cockpit
The splitter passed the analog VGA signal through whenever the game's
packed mode wasn't driving it: a person in the cockpit watched the PC boot
sequence scroll across every secondary display, and the test suite's menus
were readable on the heads. pal_draw now rasterizes M_TEXT (80x25 through
the live font tables + attribute palette -> VGA DAC, 8-dot cells, centered
640x400) with the mono MFD windows showing single-wire green-phosphor
luminance.
Two DOSBox-X planar-layout lessons encoded in comments: text cells live in
linear_base as one latch DWORD per character address (char/attr = plane
0/1 bytes, cell stride 4<<addr_shift, lvida = vidstart<<2), and
font_tables index PLANAR vram too -- one font byte per dword, so the glyph
fetch is ((chr<<5)+line)*4. Plus a 2s textdiag line (row-0 decode) in the
vpx log for future text-path debugging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Fable 5
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