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From: drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: SVGA emulation with 24 bit boards
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.220628.26119@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 22:06:28 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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I figure someone else has already thought of this (great minds think alike ;-),
but I'm wondering how feasable it would be to write handlers for all the
24 bit and pseudo-24 bit boards so that IBM (and other computer) emulators
could use them to emulate SVGA (or equivalent on other platforms) cards.  If
the emulators used standard library calls and the appropriate library was
used for the particular device (ColorBurst, FireCracker, Toaster, DCTV, HAM-E,
Harlequin, etc.), wouldn't that give a reasonable emulation (speed not with-
standing) of those graphics boards?  Just a thought to bandy about for the
bridgeboards, IBeM, AMAX, and other emulators.

Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)