I'd like to use the Trident TVGA8900D emulation which is mentioned in the documentation. This because I'm looking into driver issues with Windows 3.1 in DOSEMU. (1)
DOSEMU emulates a similar video chip, the TVGA8900C, which may work with similar drivers as the TVGA8900D. I'd like to see whether the issues I'm facing are due to the driver or due to DOSEMU.
When I look at the list of video chips in the application, I can't find the Trident TVGA8900D in the list however. (The Trident TGUI9440 is listed.) Do i need to do anything special so that this chip shows up in the GUI?
Thanks in advance for your help!
(1) https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2/issues/265
How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Maybe that's obvious to you, but... do you have the correct BIOS in the correct folder?
You need a file called trident.bin in the ROMS directory
You need a file called trident.bin in the ROMS directory
Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Yep, it's there. It contains this string "TRIDENT TVGA BIOS C4.3 (24)" so I presume it's indeed for the TVGA card. The directory is called 'roms' though not 'ROMS', but it seems the other BIOSs are located properly from there.
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Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Possibly stupid question, but is the BIOS filename capitalised correctly? Just had a quick check of the code, and it's looking for "roms/TRIDENT.BIN".
Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Possibly stupid, but here you actually hit the nail on the head! It was named 'trident.bin'! Renaming to 'TRIDENT.BIN' made it show up!! Thanks a lot!!SarahWalker wrote:Possibly stupid question, but is the BIOS filename capitalised correctly? Just had a quick check of the code, and it's looking for "roms/TRIDENT.BIN".
I should probably compare the roms archive that I downloaded with what's in the source, there may be more naming mistakes in there.
Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Are you using the Linux version, right?
I'm on the Windows version, and and the trident.bin file is in small caps and works perfect
I'm on the Windows version, and and the trident.bin file is in small caps and works perfect
Re: How to choose the Trident TVGA8900D?
Yes, I'm using GNU/Linux. On Windows you probably have a case insensitive file system. I renamed several files now (often .bin has to be .BIN) after grepping through the source and a lot more devices are showing up now.