Harekiet wrote:

Much better would be to emulate vesa using directdraw, combine a kernel driver with a vdd and a small tsr .

I have visions of immense slowdowns. Emulation of video?!?

It would be better to find a way to do LEGAL pass-through.

Besides, what of beyond VESA2? All the SciTech creations?? VBE 3.0 and whatnot? The cards already support these, an "emulation" would not, for a VERY long time.

Unless you mean "emulation" in the more broad sense.

That would be useful for all that are involved, though I'd use OpenGL or SDL so that it would be easily portable. (Then again, hrm, Windows programming languages...)

Are there any freeware or trial versions of Driver Development kits?

Duffman wrote:

Are there any freeware or trial versions of Driver Development kits?

Duffman, As far as I know the Windows DDK itself is free, you can order a CD and pay only for the shipping and handling. Home page of the Windows DDK is here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/winddk.mspx, the order form is here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/ordernetddkcd.mspx (select Windows XP SP1 DDK).

I am trying to get one of these from my company's MSDN subscription (it's hard to get anything on CD from MS if you are not in the US or Europe), so I can check the rumours about the vga.sys driver source code.

Regards,

MajorGrubert wrote:

so I can check the rumours about the vga.sys driver source code.

where did you here those rumours?😕 😕

Duffman wrote:

where did you here those rumours?

I remember searching for vga.sys on Google and one or two guys were talking about the source code for vga.sys being available in the DDK. I can't remember exactly, but a search on Google groups for "vga.sys source code" (http://groups.google.com/groups?&q=vga.sys+source+code) shows at least one post about it.

Regards,

I might have the DDK. Will have to check.

would the DDK be easy to use for a beginner programer? or is it too advanced for someone like me?

I'm about to graduate from university and get a B.S. in Computer Science and I still don't know the first thing about Windows programming 🙁 It looks pretty daunting to me...

Anyway with this distortion thing,
how come the 3dfx versions of GTA and blood I have can go above 640x480 resolution but not the non-3dfx version??
It seem rather odd

Just a random question
Does nvidia have all the former technology and programming scripts of 3dfx? If so, do you reckon nvidia would release any of those obsolete DOS scripts that 3dfx had when dos reigned supreme?
DOS scripts dont really have any relevance to nvidias design anymore

We've had these conversations before in the GliDOS/OpenGLide forums. Might wanna poke around there a bit. 😀

can you be more specific? which discussion (I hate useing search on this site)

Originally posted by Duffman can you be more specific? which discussion (I hate useing search on this site)

One of them:
showthread.php?threadid=5&perpage=20&highligh … ia&pagenumber=1

Uh, yeah, since the, uh, search is so, uh, hard, and doesn't give you any options, or anything. 😜

Dosfreak?

Do you have the DDK? and know how to use it?

i have distorted colors too!
i'm trying archimedean dynasty (schleichfahrt in german) with nolfb, and colors are screwed up. I have a radeon x800...
could someone please sum up what i should try?

Not resurrecting 3 year old threads?