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Graphic Vision File Manager 2.63 (Announce)

posted by jaybur Homepage E-mail, UK, 19.12.2007, 01:22

> Forgot VESAMTRR - you included a desperately obsolete version. Even worse,
> FASTVID is still in: 320 KiB, 85% of it DOG/4SW :crying:
>
> Reason ? VESAMTRR has no VGAMTRR included ?

Yes, but I can't find VESAMTRR.EXE or (most importantly) its source code on Japheth's web site, so I can take a look at it and try to add VGA support. I've been meaning to ask Japheth about the VESAMTRR source, but just plain forgot.

> This might be easy to fix then FASTVID can finally leave the scene :clap:
Yes! :-)

> > It supports 8, 15, 16 and 32bpp video modes
>
> No support for "horrible" 24bpp :-|
:no: But we've been over that one already. ;-)

> Limited fun ... still defaults to EGO-DPMI/RTM.EXE and doesn't run without
> XMS host :-(
Defaults to, yes. But running MAKE-FM.BAT to make a DPMILD16.EXE/HDPMI16/RTM.DLL version isn't that difficult is it?

> BUG: have 26 drives A ... Z : seems mostly FreeDOS bug :-(
Most definately a FreeDOS bug. :crying:

> Possible BUG: seems to excessively access A drive when on HD partition in
> a directory beginning with "A" :confused:
Does it! :surprised: Thanks, I'll check this out in a minute.

> Annoying: Accesses A drive always when I want to change drive ...
It does try to use the BIOS to tell if the disk has been changed, but many BIOS's don't seem to support the "changeline" mechanism. :-( So It has to access the floppy to see if the volume label has changed.

> "View as bitmap" seems to support BMP and JPG => "bitmap" -> "image"
> Bogus complaints on GIF and PNG -> "So far only BMP and JPG are supported,
> GIF and PNG aren't yet"
They are on my to-do list.

> Manual issues:
>
> > VESAMTRR.EXE requires HDPMI32.EXE or other Ring 0 DPMI server.
>
> Wrong. HDPMI32 is a Ring3 DPMI host (Grrr :-( I dislike those "servers")
You're probably right, but this is from VESAMTRR.TXT:

"This tool requires cpu ring 0 access, so it cannot run on WinXP/2k/NT or
DOSEMU, and it isn't needed there either."

> > any standalone DOS except for MS-DOS 7.x (MS-DOS 7.x already does what
> FastVid/VESAMTRR do
>
> :confused: (I don't use it)
You don't need to use VESAMTRR if you're running MS-DOS 7.x or Win9x/ME.

> > Win3.1 extender
>
> confusing - remove ?
Yes, it probably is for those that don't know that RTM.EXE/DLL are (partial) Win3.1 kernel emulators.

> (requirements)
> > 8MB RAM
>
> add "XMS host required when running on DPMI16BI"
Good point.

> > Mouse
> > Microsoft 7.05 (or better) compatible mouse driver
>
> New: "Recommended: mouse (preferably serial or PS/2) with driver
> (preferably CTMOUSE)"
Ok.

> Main issue (impossible ?): compile with FreePASCAL as 32-bit :-|
No, far from impossible. Except I am using Delphi for my 32-bit port. I already have much of the 120,000+ lines of Graphic Vision working, including its graphics engine (the majority of which is written in assembler). :-P I also hope to make it FreePascal compatible soon afterwards, or even during the latter stages of the rewrite.

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