-=> Peter Fitzsimmons bestowed upon All <=-

I never would have guessed that Pulse would slow Dive like that.  Another 
observation for you.  While running the Dive demo and Pulse, I opened up 
DOS's EDIT to reply to your message.  It stopped Dive dead in its tracks.  
Wouldn't render a frame.  After I closed Pulse, Dive was still frozen.  
Then while writing this reply (actually the first copy of this reply), Dive
started up again and then froze when I hit a key.  Then my system locked
and I had to reboot.  Not fun.  Sometimes I wonder just how stable OS/2 
really is.  I know Windows isn't stable, but DOS has never randomly locked
up on me.. Hmmm.....


 PF> Further into my DIVE exploration...it appears that the 8514/a driver
 PF> does not support dive! Ouch.   I've been wandering through the DDK
 PF> source and it appears the only driver (with source) that supports it
 PF> is S3. 
 PF> The ATI Mach32 drivers support the DIVE sample program,  but I don't
 PF> want to use these drivers for other reasons (slow, unstable). 
 PF> Why can I play *.AVI files with the 8514/a driver then,  I wonder?
 PF> Doesn't it use DIVE? 

You might try ATI's BBS and see if they have a newer Mach32 driver than the
one you have.  The Mach 64 drivers are working fine for me.  Unless they 
are the reason for the above mentioned crash.. Double Hmmm......

Anyone else have Dive experiences?  Any good pointers on setting a palette?
It appears that you still have to fight Gpi for a palette, although DIVE
does some automattic remapping.  I haven't started any serious DIVE work 
yet, but I will in a week or so.

Later,
Michael Duffy


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