Does AMD/ATI, nVidia, or Intel have any sort of stable 2D graphics API/register set that their cards actually supported for a period of time? I just find it odd, especially after 3D took off, that these vendors kept changing the programming interface for basic graphics display.
That stable API is the OS driver interface (or things like Glide and ATI CIF), which unifies all the hardware for the software side of things. But all the stuff from driver to hardware is purely hardware specific and depends very much on how the particular hardware was implemented and there was a lot of ideas and evolution on that regard over the years.
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How's Autodesk support on these late graphics cards?
The ADI driver existed in Real-Mode and 32-Bit Protected-Mode version, I think.
So if there's still ADI support for, say, AutoCAD R13 then an Windows driver using ADI driver might be possible.
It's same basic idea as using the TIGA driver in Windows 3.1, which relies on the TIGA graphic's cards DOS-based TIGA driver.
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