On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
> > Cirrus Logic made some pretty good cards, they're quite fast and easy
> > to get hold of, atleast here in Norway.
>
> You have said that before and we all know how many you could get then... ;-)
Hehe! That time I was stupid enough to trust a dealer, this time it's
based upon my experiences when I tried to find Mach-cards.
> Seriously, the fastest ISA card you can get is probably the Mach64 card but
> ofcourse any decent gfx card will still be faster then the videl in higher
> resolutions and colour depths. The main problem is to write the drivers....
Writing drivers isn't a problem if we can get away with writing only
the hardware-specific stuff and not an entire VDI. E.g. writing
drivers for NVDI would have been perfect if 2B had released the specs.
The ET4000-drivers for NVDI 4 are only a few kB (3 - 5 IIRC), which is
only a few hundred lines of C-source. Hopefully fVDI will be equally
modular.
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Received on to. des. 11 1997 - 16:25:30 CET