[Freemint-list] fVDI driver for WinUAE: UAEGFX.SYS

[Vincent Rivière]

Hello.

I'm proud to announce that I have written an fVDI driver for WinUAE, named 
UAEGFX.SYS. Currently, it only supports 16-bit video modes, with any 
resolution. It is similar to ARAnyM's fVDI driver: the main drawing 
primitives are accelerated by the emulator, providing a great speed boost.

You can see the result there, with EmuTOS, FreeMiNT and XaAES:
https://s3.postimg.org/581wg89yr/xaaes_uaegfx.png

Don't be mistaken, even if it looks like an ARAnyM setup, it is really an 
Amiga emulator running standard Atari software :-)

Download page:
http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/archives/mint/fvdi/

Details:

1) I wrote that driver 3 years ago, but a few details were missing. I 
recently kicked my ass to finish that work, now it is done, and well done.

2) Scoop: Johan Klockars plans to put official fVDI sources on GitHub. He is 
currently gathering his old pre-CVS backups, in order to rebuild the full 
history. The result will be more complete than the current SVN repository on 
SourceForge.

3) As Johan's new repository is not available yet, I have put all my fVDI 
work on GitHub, in my own profile:
https://github.com/vinriviere/fvdi/
The upstream branch is synchronized with official fVDI SVN repository on 
SourceForge.
The master branch contains all my work, including fVDI engine bugfixes and 
new uaegfx driver. The patch provided on the my download page is generated 
from this branch.

4) Limitation: currently, this driver does not work with official EmuTOS for 
Amiga binaries (either ROM or floppy). You need to manually build a special 
ROM with AROS support enabled. You can use that ROM for yourself, but due to 
license issue, you can't redistribute it. I plan to rewrite the AROS 
initialization code under GPL to fix that issue, but that will be another story.

This demonstrate how portable is our FreeMiNT environment :-)

-- 
Vincent Rivière