Autor: Przemysław Pawełczyk (warpman_at_friko5.onet.pl)
Data: Mon 09 Nov 1998 - 01:38:49 MET
Coraz lepiej. ;-)
Warpman
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***In case anybody is interrested.
Hi,
Thanks for your interested in the SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
beta. The beta release is not ready at this time as we are building
the list of interested parties ready for the beta release. We hope to
have the beta
release ready in the next 1-2 weeks, and we will send you more
information at that time.
Since many of you may be wondering exactly what SDD for OS/2 is, this
is what is in store for you:
. Full OS/2 GRADD display driver that supports DIVE/EnDIVE and
WinOS/2 seamless.
. Support for every display mode imaginable (320x200, 320x240,
400x300, 512x384 etc) low res game modes up to 2048x1536 regular
and 2048x1152 HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio modes). Color depths from
8bpp up to 32bpp.
. Complete, generic refresh rate control and display mode centering.
Refresh control is provided even for standard VGA graphics and
text modes!
. Full 2D hardware acceleration support for just about every chip on
the planet.
. Direct fullscreen OS/2 native graphics libraries available using
the SciTech Multi-Platform Graphics Library (MGL) (still in
development, but core technology porting has been done).
Planned features that may make it into the first OS/2 release:
. VGA BIOS and VESA VBE/Core 3.0 BIOS virtual device driver. This
driver will provide all the same features that our Windows
products provide to OS/2 DOS boxes, including virtual banked
framebuffer modes, extended text modes and refresh control of VGA
modes.
. XFree86 driver running on top of our drivers, fully accelerated
(we have this running under Linux already, so we hope to bring a
port of this to OS/2 also).
. Full multi-controller support using any old PCI graphics card (up
to 8 in one system!).
. Full support for both hardware and software stereo LC shutter
glasses, with complete refresh rate control support (> 120Hz!).
Planned features for future versions:
. Full 3D hardware accelertion via our native SciTech Nucleus API
and via OpenGL (based on Mesa).
Best Regards,
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| SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! |
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| Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB_at_scitechsoft.com |
| Director of Engineering | Phone: (530) 894 8400 |
| SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (530) 894 9069 |
| 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com |
| Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com |
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Jason R Stefanovich
Sr. Database Analyst
MIS Mgr.
U. S. Army
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