[EvanAnderson]

VGA has redefinable character sets. I tried doing some animation with them back in the day, but I ran into some kind of limitation that I don't recall. I was trying to accomplish an animation effect by altering the character definitions in realtime, which I recall being very slow. It never occurred to me to do something like this. Now it'll be everything I can do to stop myself from trying this on an old PC! Goodbye weekend productivity!

[bitwize]

Redefining the character set was how some text-mode programs like the old Norton suite got "graphical" mouse cursors and the like.

[eb0la]

If I remember well to overcome flicker with custom Character you has to wait for vsync.

I don't remember what esd the port for that, somethin un the 4p sets... except if you wait for VSYNC like if you were usibg a double framebuffer.

[diffuse_l]

For some ideas about what can be done in text mode on pc, see this demo [1].

[1] http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=5110

[mromanuk]

Weekend may not be productive, instead go for memorable