Author: Johan Klockars (as28-3-8.va.g.bonet.se)
Date: 04-16-2003 22:22
> > Does all the PCI ATi Rage cards work with an eclipse?
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> I think not, but you should ask directly this question to the fVDI author Johan Klockars at...
Or better yet, at my new main address, which I'm sure you can figure out from the mailto-line above. ;-)
> The card suited for the Eclipse is named "ATI Rage IIc", and sold under the commercial name "ATI Charger".
As far as the Eclipse itself is concerned, any graphics card (that does not require a PCI bus capable of bus mastering (I'd be surprised if any graphics card did, even though the PCI bus is really intended to be used that way)), is fine. Normally you'd want to use it with some kind of driver, however, and fVDI currently only supports the RageII. ;-)
Note that only RageII is currently supported, and not all of those. No Rage XL, RagePro, Rage128 etc.
Specifically, the RageII card should have either of the following two PCI vendor/device ID's:
$10024755
$10024756
The former is called Rage II+ and only has 2 Mbyte RAM, the latter is the 4 Mbyte Rage IIc.
While I might be able to get other RageII's working (the initialization differs), you shouldn't expect me to do anything about it.
I could provide a way to bypass the ID check, which just might work with some card. Most likely, you'd get a seriously screwed up display, however (that's what you get if you force the RageII driver to initialize a Rage IIc as if it was a Rage II+).
Future driver development, from my side, will center on the Voodoo Banshee/3/4/5 cards. Unlike for most other cards, there is full documentation available on the net for those.
It remains to be seen when I'll actually get anything done concerning this, however. I do have an unused Voodoo 3/2000 installed in my main PC for just this purpose, but...
Of course, as always, other developers are very welcome to write drivers for whatever they might be interested in. Currently, the only non-Atari graphics hardware supported by fVDI is RageII, ARAnyM (native code SDL based driver inside the emulator) and Mario Becroft Galaxy card. The Atari mode drivers are incomplete and not up to date.
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