From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:57:39 +0000
From: Martin Harriss <martin@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Message-ID: <8hrjmo$di6$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: [9fans] escape from vga hell?
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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