[Virtualacorn-list] An Iyonix Replacement?

[David J. Ruck]

ATimbrell at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 06/10/2008 12:07:21 GMT Daylight Time,
> druck at druck.org.uk writes:
> > I am also very intrested in this, having expressly purchased  an
> > upgrade to VRPC-SA (from SE) on the understanding that a driver for
> > RISC OS 6 would address these display issues. That was at the South
> > East  show this time last year, and I have not heard of any progress.
>  
> I am a little confused about this one. The RISC OS 6 Video driver (that
> supports the 8Mb of VRAM under VirtualRPC) was released as part of RISC
> OS 6.10 - at Wakefield this year. So if you are a current Select
> Subscriber and have your RISC OS 6.10 CD - then you have the driver built
> into the RISC OS softload ROM.

Well I've just installed 6.10 on VRPC-SA, and there is no change in the
video capabilities.

How is is supposed to work? There is only VIDC in Configure's monitor
driver list. I would have expected to see some kind of entry for VRPC, as I
did on for ViewFinder on my Risc PC.

> With regard to going higher than 8Mb - then the StrongARM VirtualRPCs can
> go over this limit (the theoretical limit being around 16Mb) when using
> the ARM7500 core.

And I've never got that to work either.

Some explaination is needed here Aaron.

Cheers
---Dave

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