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[News] Elbox is releasing their 100% compatible P96 driver today ANN.lu Posted on 13-Feb-2001 21:46 GMT by Christian Kemp 31 comments View flat View list Christophe Decanini quotes VGR.COM: ELBOX Computer Development Department is proud to announce today's release of the new driver for graphic cards working with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard (..) Support for Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards is limited to 24-bit graphic mode. Here is the press release. List of all comments to this article Sorted by date, most recent at bottom Comment 1 Kenny 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 2 m0ns00n 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 3 Phil 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 4 Amifan 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 5 the man in the shadows 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 6 Kenny 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 7 Chris 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 8 Pleasurepill 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 9 Phil 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 10 Francisco 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 11 Kenny 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 12 Nils 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 13 the man in the shadows 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 14 Phil 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 15 peter Heginbotham 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 16 HammerD 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 17 Frans 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 18 Marcel 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 19 m0ns00n 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 20 the man in the shadows 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 21 Mike 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 22 Christophe Decanini 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 23 Darrin 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 24 Marcel 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Elbox is releasing their 100% compatible P96 driver today : Comment 25 of 31 ANN.lu Posted by Anonymous on 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT In reply to Comment 24 (Marcel): Taking neither side, but throwing this in for the hell of it: PCI is based on ISA which is one of the worst godawful warped address protocols ever devised. PCI improves on it but tries to be backward compatible. The PC hardware itself (ie: the gfx chips, etc) is the best the world can produce, but even then the manufacturers hate the bus protocol which is why we go from ISA to EISA to PCI and now AGP and so on. As with all PC legacy junk we ought to just scrap the lot and start again, recognising that legacy compatibility to an 8-bit IO space and 16-bit address space is just stupid. Zorro is a technically better protocol than PCI, but due to Amiga motherboard historical limitations Z3 isn't as fast. Zorro does support true autoconfig, not the arbitrary forced hope-it-works remapping that the software is forced to perform on PCI. In fact, nothing in conventional PC hardware supports any kind of autoconfig, it all relies on software. Jump... #31 tronman Top Previous comment Next comment bottom List of all comments to this article (continued) Comment 26 Elliott Olson 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 27 Rafo 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 28 Anonymous 15-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 29 WinUAE user 15-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 30 Dave 15-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT Comment 31 tronman 17-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT

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