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

[Philippe Noble]

A green desktop is not necessarily ridiculous, with a nice background and nice icons ;-)

http://www.philippeworld.net/ftp/Pictures/beykeyb8.jpg

Philippe

> On 26 Feb 2017, at 09:03, Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere at freesbee.fr> wrote:
> 
>> 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
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