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/
>