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From: shepperd@dms.UUCP (Dave Shepperd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Xenix device drivers and/or WSYE WY-700
Message-ID: <618@dms.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 23:35:16 GMT
Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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I have this WYSE WY-700 graphics board and monitor lying around and thought
of hooking it up on a 386 system running Xenix/386 2.3.1. Then I thought it
might be neat to get MGR working on it too. Hmmm, this is gonna be a big
job.

1) Anybody have a Xenix driver for this board that I can have? (WYSE
claims there is one, but not for public consumption...IMHO it probably would
cost $100's if it were.) I'm only interested in using the board in 1280x800
monochrome mode.

2) Failing that, are there any recommended sources of information for
writing Xenix device drivers, specifically for Xenix/386 and especially
with examples...lots of examples.

3) Is using a device driver overkill for this application? Is there a way
to simply map the display memory and the 3 I/O ports to user memory?
-- 

Dave Shepperd.	    shepperd@dms.UUCP or weitek!dms!shepperd
Atari Games Corporation, Sycamore Drive, Milpitas CA 95035.
(Arcade Video Game Manufacturer, NOT Atari Corp. ST manufacturer).