Re: Amiga and Retina ZII

[David Brownlee <abs%anim.dreamworks.com@localhost>]

        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

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On 25 Feb 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <19990225114815.A12513@localhost>,
>       Bernd Sieker <bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost> 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/
>