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Pype.Clicker wrote:
if you're ready to disassemble the video BIOS (which you of course are not allowed to do ) and use the result for reverse-engineering the specs of the card without making it burning or something, i sincerely suggest you use that energy to offer a vm86 monitor instead: at least it will offer support for *all* video cards :-p
I was just joking.
Btw. I found VGADOC4B. It contains the ATI specs, S3 specs, etc.
Maybe something for the programmers here
is certainly a valuable catch, would it only be for "PCI.TXT" it contains ...
i don't know how actual those other files are, as most of the cards looks to be old ISA/PCI ones ... It's certainly worth browsing to figure how an accelerated card works ...
Note: VGADOC4 was replaced by VGADOC4b because the file VGADECL.INC was
missing. VGADECL.INC and README.1ST are the only differences between
VGADOC4 and VGADOC4b.
Thanks all. It's been real interesting reading through all the discussion. As to what I'm going to do, I think I shall just write a bootsector and enable VESA before I go to PMODE. It wasn't exactly what you all thought, but I feel cheap booting from Grub anyway. I just hate using someone elses code! Thanks again,
Brett
) and use the result for reverse-engineering the specs of the card without making it burning or something, i sincerely suggest you use that energy to offer a vm86 monitor instead: at least it will offer support for *all* video cards :-p
