Subject: Re: Amiga and Retina ZII
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/26/1999 15:49:57
Does anyone have any version of the source available, and
similarly does anyone have a board which they would be
willing to donate to anyone who would work on support.
I'm not offering to work on support, but I am offering to
put up the details on www.netbsd.org to assist anyone who
would be...
David/absolute
-=- "cold nights, dark days..." -=-
On 25 Feb 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> In article <19990225114815.A12513@localhost>,
> Bernd Sieker <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> writes:
> > I'd like to know, though, why support for it has been dropped.
>
> Because it requires a heavily modified X11 server which nobody maintains
> these days.
>
> Of course you can write a kernel driver which uses the MMU to turn the
> Retina ZII into a linear frame buffer suitable for "Xamiga" but it will
> probably be quite slow.
>
> --
> Matthias Scheler http://home.owl.de/~tron/
>