dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes) (03/22/91)
I'm trying to locate a Technical Reference / Data Book for the TsengLabs ET4000 graphics chip. I haven't been able to find one locally. If someone could tell me the FAX number (and/or address) of someone who can supply this, I'd appreciate it. BTW, I've just seen Roell's X386 server running on an ET4000 card -- and I'm very impressed! David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes (dawes@suphys.physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
fs@pta.oz.au (Functional Software) (03/22/91)
"Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards - Second Edition" by Richard F. Ferrara, Addison-Wesley, 1990, has quite a comprehensive section on the ET4000, as well as most of the other common Super VGA cards (ET3000, PVGA1A etc). It also has a FULL description of the VGA registers, explaining in reasonable detail what each field does. It was certainly good enough for me to knock together a simple VGA graphics library in various modes for my Paradise 800x600 card. Michael Selig, Functional Software.
roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) (03/25/91)
>"Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards - Second Edition" by >Richard F. Ferrara, Addison-Wesley, 1990, >has quite a comprehensive section on the ET4000, as well as most of the other >common Super VGA cards (ET3000, PVGA1A etc). It also has a FULL description >of the VGA registers, explaining in reasonable detail what each field does. Yes, this book is quite well. But the descriptions of the Chipsets are not the real thing. There are missing IMPORTANT details. If you do programming under DOS you don't have to know them all, but if you do programming under UNIX you have to know every register. The best thing is to have the Et4000's databook along with the examples from Ferraro's book. - Thomas -- _______________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de UUCP (if above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} famous last words: "diskspace - the final frontier..."