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Subject: [WarpCast] SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - BETA 32
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Source: Kendall Bennett (KendallBatscitechsoft.com)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevorathaligonian.com)
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Where do you get it?

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.3 for OS/2 BETA 32 from
our ftp site using the following URL:

  ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.3-b32.exe 

Note that we have now changed the version numbering to keep track of
the equivalent release versions of the IBM SDD/se editions of the
product. As new public released are made available by IBM, we will
update our version numbering to suit.


What's new:

 . All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes
are tracked at the following URL:
   
  http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt 


What is SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2?

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and
Windows device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System.
Although one of the core features of our DOS and Windows products is
the support for the VESA VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has
nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display
Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics
Architecture device driver technology to bring SciTech's device
support to the OS/2 platform.  

SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver
architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop
and test the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows environments,
while being able to target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime
environment (such as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product
to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and
Windows versions of the product, improving the quality and
performance of the drivers for all supported operating systems.  


Runtime Requirements

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 requires a version of OS/2 Warp 3 or
OS/2 Warp 4 in order to run. More imporantly, it requires at least
Warp 3 with fixpack 35, or Warp 4 with fixpack 5 installed. If you
have a version with earlier fixpacks installed, SciTech Display
Doctor will refuse to install.  


List of all certified chipsets:

This is a complete list of the various graphics chipsets that have
been certified to work correctly with this version of SciTech Display
Doctor. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being
used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any
products from Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are
supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any
card with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported by SciTech
Display Doctor.  

Note: Please check the separate list of supported laptop chipsets for
more information if you are using this product on a laptop. All
laptop chipsets are still listed here as many laptop chipset can also
be used in regular PCI/AGP boards.

. 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V, Permedia 3
. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo5
. ARK 1000PV, 2000PV, 2000MT, 2000MI (Quadro64), 2000MI+ (Quadro64)
. ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage, Mach64 VTB
. ATI 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC, 3D Rage Pro
. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage 128, Rage 128 Pro
. ATI Rage Mobility 128	
. Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT3D
. Chips & Technologies 65548, 65550, 65554, 65555, 69000
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD, Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
. Cyrix MediaGX
. InteGraphics CyberPro 2000, CyberPro 2010
. Intel i740, i740 PCI
. Macronix 86250, 86251
. Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
. Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
. NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64
. NVIDIA RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR
. NVIDIA Quadro
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV+, MagicMedia 256ZX, MagicMedia 256XL+
. Number Nine Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Imagine 128 II VRAM
. Number Nine Imagine 128 II DRAM, Ticket 2 Ride WRAM
. Number Nine Ticket 2 Ride SGRAM, Ticket 2 Ride IV
. OAK Spitfire 64107, Spitfire 64111, Eon 64017, Eon 64217, Warp 5
. Philips 9710
. Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2200
. S3 Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Vision 864
. S3 Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX
. S3 Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D, Trio3D/2X, Savage3D, Savage4
. SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620
. Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
. Trident TGUI9440, TGUI9440-R2, TGUI9680, ProVidia 9682
. Trident Cyber9385 LCD, ProVidia 9685, 3DImage 975, Cyber9397 LCD
. Trident 3DImage 985, Blade 3D, Blade 3D (Via)
. Tseng Labs ET4000/W32p, ET6000, ET6100
. Weitek P9000, P9100
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0


List of all non-Certified chipsets:

This is a list of the various graphics chipsets that have native
drivers developed for SciTech Display Doctor, but have yet to be
completed and pass certification. The drivers should work relatively
well, but as they have not been fully certified problems could arise
if you use one of these chipsets. Please do not report problems
related to uncertified drivers!  

. 3dfx Voodoo4
. Alliance ProMotion AT25
. InteGraphics IGS 1680, IGS 1682, IGS 1683
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128V, MagicGraph 128ZV, MagicGraph 128ZV+
. Philips 9712
. S3 Savage2000
. SiS 300


List of all supported laptop chips:

The following is a complete list of the various laptop graphics
chipsets that we support in this version of SciTech Display Doctor.
Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not
the laptop brand or model itself. Thus you will not see any products
from Gateway or Dell on the list, but their products are supported
because they use NeoMagic, ATI, Cirrus etc. chips.   

. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage Mobility 128
. Chips & Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 69000
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV+, MagicMedia 256ZX, MagicMedia 256XL+
. S3 Virge/MX
. Trident Cyber9385 LCD, Cyber9397 LCD
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0


 
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