RE: Video Card Update.

From: Bo Zimmerman (bo_zimmerman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-05-01 16:36:48

That would be great.  To stand so close to the edge of such an amazing
upgrade is truely hard to comprehend.

I'm sure that, one way or another, a C128 patch will follow the '64 release
and render this whole problem obsolete, especially since Ms. Ellsworth has
already put in support for it (VDC).

The first program I hope to see supporting it would be some sort of image
viewer.  Patches for GEOS to be able to use some of these modes would be
great also.  Getting a higher horizontal resolution out of GEOS is no
problem -- vertical resolutions higher than 255 may be tough, however, on
the existing architecture.

My compatibility question still stands, however.  Does anyone know how it
interfaces?  Will it behave as a C64 cart?  That is, forcing a C128 into '64
mode, but working otherwise fine?  I heard some mention that it would need
to be patched onto the '64 motherboard in some specific way... is that still
so?

- Bo

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From: owner-cbm-hackers@dot.tml.hut.fi
[mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@dot.tml.hut.fi]On Behalf Of Professor Dredd
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 6:14 AM
To: cbm-hackers@dot.tml.hut.fi
Subject: RE: Video Card Update.


Bo,

If I had the necessary programming skill to patch or
re-write these programs I would do it. Really, I'm
bogged down rewriting programs to work on my CMD
hardware.

It is my hope that programmers will be able to take up
the challenge. Isn't there a fellow rewriting GEOWrite
128 to use the Wheels Kernal? Didn't Maurice hack
Flight Sim II to run from a RAMLink? Aren't there
folks hacking games to run on SuperCPU?

If you really value these programs and want them to
take advantage of new hardware, I suggest you start
disassembling. That's what I do, anyway. Some I get to
work and some I don't.

As for GEOS/Wheels, it is up to Maurice to decide what
hardware his OS will support. As I see it, Wheels and
especially Wave would benefit ENORMOUSLY from the
advanced graphics and acceleration offered by Jeri's
card. I HOPE he will give it serious consideration.


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