[GEM Development] Driver list
Gene Buckle
geneb at deltasoft.com
Thu Sep 8 20:26:43 PDT 2005
John Elliott wrote:
> :
> : Now that's very cool; thanks John! Shame there's very close to no chance of
> : me seeing the 256-colour driver in action...
>
> I've emailed one person who's got a picture of the Paradise card in
> question (an MCA version, not less) on his webpage. We'll see if anything
> comes of it. Other than that, it would be necessary to write or adapt a PC
> emulator to support that card; I *have* done this in the past, but never
> with something as complicated as an 8514/a.
> Where the 8514/a scores over anything later is that it actually uses 8
> planes for its 256 colours, rather than one byte per pixel; this makes it a
> good match for the way GEM drivers are structured internally.
>
John, I bet if you hop over to the Classic Computer list at
http://www.classiccmp.org you can find someone that would be willing to
part with one of those cards.
g.
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