[GEM Development] Driver list

[Gene Buckle]

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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