[Freemint-list] fVDI driver for Amiga + Vampire V2: SAGA.SYS

[Vincent Rivière]

On 26/02/2017 at 12:26, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> Amazing :)

It was much more difficult to debug fVDI than writing actual drivers ;-)

> The only thing missing now is memory protection.

It might be possible on A1200 (?) / A4000. I have no idea if that would be 
easy. Probably yes, as, if I understand correctly, it already works on 
Milan. But as it is an optional feature, and as there are many other things 
to do, I don't plan to work on that.

> Just have to make an IKBD adapter for it. Does anybody know if the Amiga
> serial port can be set to 7812 baud?

http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node01A1.html

Writing a value of 453 to SERPER register should do the trick.
IF you take out the soldering iron, I may try that ;-)

> A suggestion: The green desktop has been an object of ridicule among the
>  Amiga fanboys for three decades now (they have no taste, just look at
> their butt ugly GUI).

I can understand that. But it is the first screenshot ever.
And they are default settings of XaAES / TeraDesk, isn't it?
So if it is ugly, they maybe the defaults should be changed.

> What about showing a screenshot of what MiNT/XaAES can look like? A nice
> backdrop, nice desktop icons, gradients, "modern" software like zView,
> Papyrus and Netsurf...

I just don't want to do everything myself. And it would be too much work to 
setup things I don't use myself, as I don't care.

But would you believe that the 68040 FreeMiNT setup I have on my 
CompactFlash card, containing only official binaries, works equally well 
with ARAnyM / WinUAE / Vampire? I just need to enable the right driver in 
the FVDI.SYS config file ;-)

So if you want to see nice screenshots of Vampire, you can prepare an ARAnyM 
setup for me. People will enjoy.

-- 
Vincent Rivière