Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 02:41:43 +0300
From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz@isdn.net.il>
To: lwn@eklektix.com
Subject: Scitech Display doctor for Linux

Hi there,

Few days ago, I spoke to a person called Kandel in Scitech software (who
created the Display Doctor program for DOS/Windows) about a problem I've
had with my VGA card, and I thought to ask what about a port to Linux. I
thought I'll hear something like "no demand", "we don't plan to this in
the near future",etc..

I was wrong.

He told me that they hired someone which will start to work on June 1st
on porting Display doctor to Linux and it will have these features:

1. Some sort of SVGAlib (including Vesa 3.0 modes) to All graphics cards
they supported today (thats including the NeoMagic, Matrox, etc...)

2. Special version of Xserver fully accelerated to all of the cards
(again - also to NeoMagic, Matrox, etc...)

3. A library that you can start writing some games, emulators etc for
using on an enviroment just like SVGAlib today, with all the modes,
resolutions etc..

4. Support for GGI libraries and functions.

Now here is the best part:

Just like they're DOS/Windows version, there will be a 21 days trial
version, and a commercial version for 54.95$! - So you don't need to buy
from X inside a 400$ X server for Notebooks or 200$ for X server for
Desktop machine.

One more thing: the port will include a superset instructions for 3D
Accelerations (thats they're MGL product) that will be included in
they're Display doctor for Linux.

Product will be available probably in October or November.

Sincerely yours,

Hetz Benhamou
Tel Aviv, Israel