From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Interested in doing a FreeVBE driver for the ATI Rage Fury 128
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:56:26 GMT
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In article <921gta$60d$1 AT newsg3 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk>,
  "Matthew Smith" <matt AT the-good-stuff DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> > I get all 512 pages (32MB) reported (using allegro 3.12...)
>
> I'm green :)P   I'm beginning to wonder if I should have bought a 3D
card
> for 2D work instead.

Well it's a decent card.  Makes with the pixels.  More specifically it
support hardware blits and hline calls ... that's about it (as far as I
can tell from the WinAllegro).

> ATI have very little incentive to deny programmers the opportunity to
write
> for their hardware.
> It is only certain *software* houses that like to keep secrets like
that.
>
> If you promise not to divulge and disperse the chip specs I'm sure
they'll
> let
> you at some programming details.
>
> Otherwise I've been told by everyone that the XFree86 has the best
open
> specs of video hardware.
>
> Information obtained by empirical (suck and see) methods is no longer
> proprietary to ATI, so they may
> actually prefer driver-writers to work only from the official spec
>
> One gotcha if you are US citizen (or worse NOT) is the U.S.G 's
definition
> of Military Potential which includes
> PSX2s and certain 3D cards.  It might help if you specifically
exclude the
> Radeon from your request.
>
> hope this helps

Thanks, I sent them a message... I will check out the XFREE86 stuff...

Tom


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