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SciTech SNAP open sourced

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First post, by davidrg

Posted on 2026-02-13, 00:13

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A few hours ago Kendall Bennett made the SciTech SNAP sources available under the 3-clause BSD license in response to someone asking about it. Perhaps there might be some interesting stuff in there; Univbe sounds familiar.

Code is all here: https://github.com/kendallb/scitech-snap-graphics/.

Reply 1 of 4, by BloodyCactus

Posted on 2026-02-13, 00:38

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wow I remember running rocklyte/athene linux distro that used snap as the graphics drivers.

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Reply 2 of 4, by BlackDoomer

Posted on 2026-02-24, 04:35

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davidrg wrote on 2026-02-13, 00:13:

in response to someone asking about it.

That was me. :) Thanks for creating topic here on VOGONS!
It's also worth noting that Kendall had already started giving private access to individuals even earlier, a year ago: https://github.com/kendallb/scitech-mgl/issues/1.

my English is broken beyond any repair, and I'm really sorry for that.

Reply 3 of 4, by xtreger

Posted on 2026-04-15, 21:42

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I hope now Univbe can be adapted to support some early 2000s GPUs like ATI X800 or X850 series

Reply 4 of 4, by Sneakernets

Posted on 2026-04-27, 18:41

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So much hard work in this repo by very talented folks to reverse engineer proprietary driver jank.
Any effort to make things compatible with basic VESA and VBE standards is a valiant one and can help to rewrite older busted drivers. Absolutely amazing stuff!

I sent the repo to the current PC/Geos team to see what they can find in here.

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