> > MK>Did they show and sell the Milan at this years Neuss Atari fair???
...
> I did also read that it didn't work very well, atleast not in colour modes.
> There wasn't any acceleration for the video card either at this point. It
> would be a good idea if they would use fVDI as well.
I talked with one of the Milan developers (who was in charge of the PCI
BIOS stuff, I think) some time back and, from what I remember, they only used
a hacked version of the TOS screen output routines then.
The VDI people were supposed to get in touch with me regarding cooperation
(performance/validation testing and possibly actual code), but I haven't
heard from them. It didn't sound like they had done anything substantial on
their VDI at that time...
Getting the current fVDI to _work_ in 8 or 16 bit colour on a Milan would
probably be an afternoon's work. Since it's so easy to write blitting
code and such for chunky graphics modes, two or three days work would give
you a really useful driver, I'd say.
Naturally, using the accelerated functions in a graphics card is tougher.
(If anyone has any experience with such things, I'd very much like to hear
about it.)
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