Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 1998 14:02:10 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	GEM/ViewMAX VESA display driver?
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<2E38D420DF@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anybody does know of a VESA display driver 
for GEM 3.1x or ViewMAX.
 
As the GEM users probably know, it's rather easy to set-up GEM 
to use 3rd party high-resultion drivers, and for almost all 
'old' SVGA cards (those with up to 1MB video memory and ISA 
or VL bus) the manufactures provided GEM 3.x drivers. Since 
DR DOS' ViewMAX is a derivative work of the GEM 3.x desktop,
GEM video drivers also work with ViewMAX. However, nowadays 
it doesn't make much sense to develop SVGA drivers for all the 
various cards out there, hence a VESA implementation would be 
very nice to enable more than 640x480 under GEM/ViewMAX, which 
is still a nice and useful graphical shell for people with 
low-end hardware.

Maybe someone is volunteering to develop such a driver? 

Matthias

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