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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: graphics cards
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:09:04 +0100
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Paul Richards writes:
Shawn Hargreaves writes,
>>[stuff about FreeBE/AF]
>>
>>Does the Trident driver work under Win95 yet??  Just wondered.
>
> Just had an idea, couldn't the Trident code from Allegro 3.0 be put 
> into the FreeBE/AF project?

It is (actually, all the old Allegro drivers are). The one that doesn't
work is SET's accelerated TGUI triver, not the old dumb framebuffer
Trident driver. The accelerated code doesn't work under Windows because 
it is a better driver, and contains a proper mode set routine rather 
than relying on the BIOS, which win95 is too dumb to allow (it doesn't 
virtualise all the registers that you need). This is a fault in the 
win95 driver rather than in FreeBE/AF, and cannot be fixed by us.


	Shawn Hargreaves.