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[AL] Announcing FreeBE/AF version 0.8
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From: Shawn H. <Sh...@ta...> - 1998-12-14 06:30:46
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I've uploaded a new version of the FreeBE/AF video driver project to http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/freebe/. What's new: Bugfixes to the Matrox Millenium II and Cirrus drivers. Converted all the old Allegro library chipset drivers into non-accelerated VBE/AF format, adding support for ATI 18800/28800, Paradise, S3, Trident, Tseng ET3000/ET4000/ET6000, and Video-7 boards. Designed and implemented an API extension mechanism, providing the ability to use these drivers in a true protected mode environment, a more rational relocation scheme, and various hooks that will later be needed for supporting the SciTech Nucleus drivers. To everyone who offered to help test these Allegro -> FreeBE/AF driver conversions, my apologies for it taking so long! I intended to have this done weeks ago :-) Anyway, it is ready now. If you've been using Allegro with one of the native SVGA drivers, it would be great if you could download this and give it a whirl, checking that the install program correctly detects your card and that it still works with the Allegro test program etc. using the Allegro VBE/AF mode. Plans: I'm going to add a mechanism for the install program to optionally toggle hardware acceleration features on and off. Then this is going to go beta in sync with Allegro 3.1, so I can hopefully end up with a final release version of both packages being uploaded to SimTel at the same time... -- Shawn Hargreaves - sh...@ta... - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ "Miracles are nothing if you've got the wrong intentions" - Mike Keneally >From <all...@ma...> Sun Dec 13 22:30:50 1998 Received: from post.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.7] by mail.canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A6648270142; Sun, 13 Dec 1998 22:30:44 DT Received: from [194.222.103.32] (helo=talula.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.054 #1) id 0zpOge-000520-00 for al...@ma...; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:28:45 +0000 Message-ID: <RdL...@ta...> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:07:24 +0000 To: al...@ma... From: Shawn Hargreaves <Sh...@ta...> Subject: [AL] Announcing Allegro 3.1 alpha release MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 <n4LQeHkuIZDKHuEabw2AtDS$Xl> Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ma... Reply-To: al...@ma... X-UIDL: 905450720 Status: O Content-Length: 1603 Lines: 31 An alpha release of Allegro version 3.1 is now available from http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/wip.html. This is available both as a complete zip distribution and as a WIP-style diff. See http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/changes.html for a complete list of new features. This version is right on the verge of being complete. A feature-freeze is now in effect, the plan being to let you people on the mailing list play around with this for the next week, and then move it up to official beta status, with annoucements on the djgpp newsgroup and the main Allegro page, sometime next weekend (December 19/20). It will remain as beta over the holiday, until I'm both confident that it is stable and sufficiently sober to deal with uploading another version, at which point the final Allegro 3.1 will show up on SimTel. Hopefully it will be very similar to this version, but if you do find any problems, please let me know ASAP! Whew, and it hasn't even reached 3:00 am yet! I promised myself that I wouldn't go to bed tonight until I had both finished this alpha release and got all the video drivers turned into FreeBE/AF format. Since I didn't even start on the video driver conversion until about 11:30, I thought I was in for a long night, but it went much faster than I was expecting. Now it is up to you to track down all my sleep depravation, caffeine induced mistakes :-) I've got to be at work by 9:00 tomorrow morning. Urgh... -- Shawn Hargreaves - sh...@ta... - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ "Miracles are nothing if you've got the wrong intentions" - Mike Keneally >From <all...@ma...> Mon Dec 14 02:40:36 1998 Received: from imo24.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.68] by mail.canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A0F1D9E0142; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:40:33 DT Received: from Xlo...@ao... by imo24.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id 3VZGa19904 for <al...@ma...>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:38:28 -0500 (EST) From: Xlo...@ao... Message-ID: <1ae...@ao...> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:38:28 EST To: al...@ma... Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [AL] function prototypes Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 226 Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ma... Reply-To: al...@ma... X-UIDL: 905450721 Status: O Content-Length: 555 Lines: 11 In a message dated 12/13/98 5:18:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, fe...@io... writes: > They are ussually found in header files so that the compiler knows > what the return type of a function is (like say printf). > > In C++ they are required because it is important for the compiler > to know what arguments a function can take before you use it. thanks that clears things up, but i have a new question does anyone use borland c++ 3.1? and if so why does it keep giving the error graphics.h line 10....etc etc something about it not being for windows? >From <all...@ma...> Mon Dec 14 02:41:27 1998 Received: from imo27.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.71] by mail.canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A125DA60142; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:41:25 DT Received: from Xlo...@ao... by imo27.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id XTFGa12601 for <al...@ma...>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:38:57 -0500 (EST) From: Xlo...@ao... Message-ID: <af5...@ao...> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:38:57 EST To: al...@ma... Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [AL] function prototypes Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 226 Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ma... Reply-To: al...@ma... X-UIDL: 905450722 Status: O Content-Length: 124 Lines: 4 In a message dated 12/13/98 5:28:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, thh...@pa... writes: > dun you agree with me? yes >From <all...@ma...> Mon Dec 14 02:46:27 1998 Received: from snoopy.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.116] by mail.canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A250DC10142; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:46:24 DT Received: from pop1.pacific.net.sg (pop1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.85]) by snoopy.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id PAA25690 for <al...@ma...>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:44:23 +0800 (SGT) Received: from 124.pmo.gov.sg (hostname96-97.gov.sg [160.96.97.253] (may be forged)) by pop1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id PAA23744 for <al...@ma...>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:44:13 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <199...@po...> From: "Eugene Teo" <thh...@pa...> To: <al...@ma...> Subject: Re: [AL] function prototypes Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:43:19 +0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ma... 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X-UIDL: 905450723 Status: O Content-Length: 153 Lines: 5 > dun you agree with me? >>yes ;) hehe u made me feel a little better. i have been spending the whole morning and afternoon trying to debug my servlet. >From <all...@ma...> Mon Dec 14 03:51:23 1998 Received: from geocities.com [209.1.224.139] by mail.canvaslink.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A189F8B0142; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:51:21 DT Received: from alpha (pdx-pm2-p28.coho.net [206.58.2.175]) by geocities.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA22918 for <al...@ma...>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:49:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <01c201be2733$95afe2e0$b2023ace@alpha> From: "Brian Bacon" <kyb...@ge...> To: <al...@ma...> Subject: Re: [AL] Shawn's Announcements Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:30:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Precedence: bulk Sender: all...@ma... Reply-To: al...@ma... X-UIDL: 905450702 Status: O Content-Length: 192 Lines: 5 I know this is off-topic but... Damn you... I JUST got done downloading and installing both the last WIP and FreeBE/AF (this for the first time). Now I have to do it all again! ACK! -Brian |