[GEM Development] Which Video Chipset IS the Dis'ted One?

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John,

 From re-reading your site (well, *some* of it ! ), I've concluded it 
was the Trident video chipset drivers. IT seems I was remembering them 
as unable to be extracted when it was you were unable to distribute them 
- copyright issue.

I hunted down where (URL) one can still get that FDD file to use with 4 
FDDs. Can't find it, now. :-(
(I remember a particular date and at the Wayback Machine. Next letter - 
so you can update your website.)

Thought I might have just seen your Cornerstone display driver among my 
5&1/4 floppies. Sorry t'isn't.
But wait!
Do you have any interest in Moniterm Viking 1 driverSs? Two 5&1/4 inch 
360KB (inner ring IS present) diskettes.

1ST DSKT says
(LHS):
"MONITERM
   VIKING 1
Display Driver Disk
ACAD, WINDOWS, VENTURA
All Rights Reserved"

(RHS):
"REVISION:  A6
P/N: 550-0601-02


2-4-87"

2nd DSKT (LHS) says SAME except
"LOTUS" is only app listed;
while (RHS) has only
P/N changed to "550-0602-02".

Hmm??

If you say yes, I'll HAVE TO figure out a way to get a 5&1/4 to run with 
a 3&1/2 on some PC, some how, and copy from the two, TO the one - some day,

Thomas Clayton
Very interesting re-reading what you did to get GEM 1.1 to run with VGA.






On 10/28/2025 7:17 AM, John Elliott wrote:
> I've gone through all my postings to the list back to 2003 and can't 
> see anything describing that particular situation. There are still a 
> number of drivers which I believe to have existed but seem to be lost 
> (shown in red on <https://www.seasip.info/Gem/Drivers/video.html>) 
> such as the Everex EV233 / EV235 or Maxlogic MaxVGA, and a few shown 
> in yellow where I've got the driver but don't feel I can distribute it.
>
> I do remember encountering a situation with corrupt driver floppies 
> for a rare video card, but I think those were Windows drivers rather 
> than GEM.
>