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- #Virtualbox windows 95 video driver drivers
- #Virtualbox windows 95 video driver driver
- #Virtualbox windows 95 video driver code
No attempt has been made to discover how far back it might work with Windows 95 betas.
#Virtualbox windows 95 video driver driver
The driver works on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. The driver can be installed through the Display Properties dialog or through the Device Manager the method used should not matter. Note that Windows 9x likely will have trouble if there are “too many” modes listed, and it is unknown what the highest resolution might be before funny things start happening. INF file (or Registry) and add their own resolutions. INF files sets up common resolutions up to 1,920×1,200 pixels, but users can edit the.
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The maximum allowed is 5,120×3,840 pixels, but that is entirely untested. It restricts the smallest resolution to 640×480 but not much beyond that.
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#Virtualbox windows 95 video driver drivers
While the Windows DDK sample drivers are all hardcoded to support a small set of resolutions, the OS/2 Museum minidriver is not. In reality it was of course supported all the way to Windows Me… Supported Resolutions One of the functions it calls is AllocCStoDSAlias, which Microsoft’s KB Article Q67165 admits is used in the Windows 3.0 DDK but says it “will not be supported in future versions of Windows”. The driver also implements and calls a couple of undocumented functions. The Windows 95 DDK completely fails to mention this non-obvious yet crucial detail I found it “documented” in U.S. I kept looking for bugs in my initialization code, but in the end I discovered that even though CreateDIBPDevice is a 16-bit function, it returns a 32-bit value not in the DX:AX register pair but rather in the EAX register. I spent a good deal of time trying to figure out why the CreateDIBPDevice function was failing. Although the documentation does pretend to list the prototypes, it often omits return types, more or less always omits the calling convention, and sometimes is a bit sloppy with argument types. That’s actually something which is easier to deal with in C, because the C compiler provides a lot more sanity checks than assembler can.Ī somewhat nastier problem was that although the Windows DDK documents all the functions which the driver needs to implement and the DIB Engine functions it can call, the DDK does not provide prototypes for those functions. The biggest challenge was the fact that the Windows 9x display driver is a 16-bit driver, which means it has to deal with segmentation. Writing the driver in C was mildly challenging.
#Virtualbox windows 95 video driver code
The OS/2 Museum Win9x minidriver is written almost completely in C (using Open Watcom C/C++), in part to show that not only it can be done, but it isn’t even too difficult, and the code is significantly easier to understand than the all-assembly DDK sample code. Or perhaps the DIB Engine was first written for WinG and then adopted for Windows 95. It is possible that the DIB Engine was planned for Windows 95 and repurposed for WinG-which also ran on Windows 3.1 and NT 3.5. WinG was released in September 1994, when Windows 95 was already well underway. The exact history of the WinG and Windows 95 DIB Engine is unclear. DIBENG.DLL does exactly the same thing, but takes the idea one step further by making the video framebuffer itself a memory bitmap, optionally using the VFlatD VxD to present a bank-switched graphics card as a linear framebuffer. The WinG DIB Engine was designed to draw to memory bitmaps using GDI. I do not know the exact timeline and history. The DIB Engine in Windows 95 (DIBENG.DLL) is very similar to the DIB Engine that Microsoft released in September 1994 as part of WinG (WINGDE.DLL). The minidriver can implement what it can do better than the DIB Engine, but doesn’t have to. The minidriver has to set modes and implement various housekeeping tasks, but all drawing can be handled by the DIB Engine. The difference is that Windows 95 introduced the “DIB Engine”, a large library that implements more or less all of GDI and that the display driver can “punt” to. Windows 9x drivers still have to do all that. To give some sense of the complexity, the Windows 3.1 DDK sample driver for Video 7 cards is about 1.6 MB (circa 60,000 lines) of assembler source code. There is a lot of cases to handle and a great deal of complexity. So what makes it a “minidriver”? A Windows 2.x/3.x display driver has to implement a very significant chunk of GDI.
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The Windows 9x display driver has much more in common with Windows 3.1 (and 3.0 and 2.x) drivers, and it has clearly directly evolved from those older drivers. The Windows 9x display driver model is completely different and has nothing in common with NT. I’d like to say that it was easy to adapt the existing Windows NT video miniport driver for Windows 9x… but of course it wasn’t.
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