new member/GATOS development plans

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Voluspa wrote:

> On Thu Sep 9 2004 Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> [...]
>>> How about the tvouput stuff from gatos?  Any plans to incorporate
>>> that code?  I'd love to have TV out working on my mach64 and/or
> [...]
>> This awaits a person willing to port this stuff. I don't want to do this
>> myself due to possible Macrovision protection issues.
>
> [etc etc]
>
> The code exists since many years, which I'm sure you know, thanks to
> Leif L. Delgass http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/
>
> I used it myself when the mach64 box was my main and it worked
> perfectly. Even better picture than what I get from nvidia nowadays.

This is a new code, one that can program the hardware directly. The old 
code used int10 (i.e. video BIOS) to turn TV-out on.

                          best

                            Vladimir Dergachev

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> Mvh
> Mats Johannesson
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