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Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> : My only problem is to choose the right SVGA board to emulate (plain VGA 
> : is not suffisant to get proper graphical display). I have the following 
> : choices:
> : 
> : - Bochs VBE (easy but limited to 8bpp)
> : - VMware virtual SVGA (easy but potential driver license problem)
> : - Intel i810 (there are good docs but the acceleration is complicated)
> : - Another SVGA card ????
> 
> How about any some other card type? Such as a Mach* or S3 cards? Those
> are pretty common and supported by must operating system, and S3 should
> probably not be that hard to simulate.  But i810 is maybe easier.

You are right. I will implement S3Trio23/64 support. Only ioport based 
acceleration will be supported in the first release.

Fabrice.