[GEM Development] Driver list

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear John:

Wasn't the Paradise a Western Digital card?
I think so. I'm SURE that I HAVE such a card in my
very basement (ISA). The drivers 5.25inch disk would
NOT install 9sort of Unzip) without the card present
as I recall. I've been saving it to "get at" the
drivers for a few years, now. (HOPE the diskette's
contents are still OK!) I've got so much DIS-asembled
eqip. that I can NOT get to (TIME wise) the card for
weeks. Let's think *BY Oct.1*!


Thomas Clayton
TopCatDRC


--- John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> 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 Elliott
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