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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: ATI 256 drivers here! Elvis sighted in Amherst, MA deli!
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.061524.7433@bigsur.uucp>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <11183.272b0b98@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 06:15:24 GMT

In article <11183.272b0b98@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>They're finally here!  The ATI 256 color windows drivers for 800x600 and
>1024x768 (1MB boards only) have arrived at Cica!  And you guys thought we would
>never see them.  
These do not appear to be official ATI released drivers. The ATI BBS doesn't
have these drivers. More likely they are beta drivers that someone has leaked.
>
>The earlier version of Winfract does not work (gives "unable to allocate global
>memory" error) but I haven't tried the new version yet. 
I tried the 1024x768x16 mode and the problem of FFW drawing outside its window
seems to be fixed. The 800x600x256 mode works OK, however, I brought up a plasma
cloud and found that some data is drawn outside the window. Since the previous
drawing outside the window seemed to be a driver problem... this might be too.
Like I said, seems to be beta software. Don't rag on ATI (at least about bugs
in this driver) until you get an offical release from ATI (RSN and I was there
when they saw Elvis).
>
>My overall impression is that, while the driver works, it slows the screen 
>display performance down 
Hopefully the 800x600x256 driver is riddled with debugging code and the official
release is going to be faster (hey, isn't that Jimmy Hoffa with Elvis?).

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