On Tue, 29 May 2001 18:17:26 -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:
>Ideally, emulating a real video card would be the way to go.
IMHO, this is more than ideal: it's a minimum requirement. You're
either going to have to decide that A)Plex86 will only run Linux and
Windows as guest OS's, or B)those OS's other than Linux and Windows are
stuck with VGA or Text-mode only.
Neither of these are a great tradeoff. At least emulating an early
model S3 chipset (or even a Tseng Labs ET4000, or something else very
simple) gives you the possibility of >640x480 and >16 colors.
Performance is not going to be stellar no matter what, so designing
something to play Quake probably isn't a realistic goal anyway! :)
Of course, I say this from the perspective of someone who wants to use
Plex86 to run OS/2... ;)
Tim Massey
