Author: Johan Klockars (as28-3-8.va.g.bonet.se)
Date: 04-21-2003 15:20
> I am glad to hear that if anything, a Banshee would be looked at,
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> I just wonder what 3D is possible with just a 16mhz CPU?
Not a whole lot, I think. And you'd likely need an FPU to make it even somewhat useful.
> Surely though, nVIDIA would be a better choice?
Unfortunately, no.
> I mean, nVIDIA have no problems porting drivers for all other O/Ses
The thing here is that nVIDIA themselves are doing most of the work for these ports, and they obviously are not going to be interested in the Atari platform.
> so getting the necessary info for porting to Atari would be a breeze!?
I have not heard of _anyone_ getting hold of the necessary documentation for the nVIDIA cards. The Linux and FreeBSD drivers appear to be kernel mode stubs used by binary code provided by nVIDIA.
I'm not sure exactly what those stubs do, but they might very well just supply the mechanisms needed for nVIDIA's code to access the card directly.
There may at one point have been some information available, since the original (2D only) XFree86 driver was open source. That was several years ago, though (before the GeForce cards, IIRC). That old driver just might make it possible to get 2D running on some nVIDIA cards, but I wouldn't bet on it being possible for anything post-TNT.
Of course, if someone thinks its doable, he's very welcome to give it a try. ;-)
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