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

[Philippe Noble]

Wow, amazing !!!
Beside the technical chalenge, is there any benefit of WinUAE vs Aranym?
As FreeMint is very portable, is an ARM or X86 native port could be a next step?

I am glad to see that official FVDI sources are being recovered and will be put on Github. Is there any plan to continue its development for Aranym, i.e implement missing NVDI functions and printing?

Philippe

> On 13 Feb 2017, at 09:10, Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere at freesbee.fr> wrote:
> 
> 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
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