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From: Martin Harriss <martin@phoenix.princeton.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] escape from vga hell?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:57:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8hrjmo$di6$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> (raw)

I wonder is it absolutely necessary to have an 8-bit VGA graphic system?  I
know monochrome doesn't work any more, but I wondered if it would be possible
to write a driver for 16-color vga mode.  If this were possible, it would
allow people to bring the system up on just about any hardware.

I might be persuaded to find the time to look at this, but thus far I'm
having trouble getting the system up.  I have a Mach32 which worked very
nicely on the old system, but is no longer supported.  I do have a Mach64,
but it complains thus: "undocumented linear aperture size" when I try to bring
it up.  (2MB on the card, and I never got it working under the 2nd edition
either.)

Martin Harriss


             reply	other threads:[~2000-06-12  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-12  9:57 Martin Harriss [this message]
2000-06-14  8:56 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-06-12 13:22 [9fans] " rsc
2000-06-12 13:45 forsyth

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