Re: Help!: Looking for CGIVESA8.SYS Video Driver

Fup2 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video, so I'm posting a long quote.

On 2004-09-08, Doug White <gwhite@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I have some graphics software for radio receiver design that I wrote
> about 10 years ago using CGI graphics from GSS. The only "high
> resolution" graphics card they had drivers for at the time was the Tseng
> Labs ET6000 running at 1024 x 768. I've got the card, but would really
> like to upgrade my video system. I have a nice new flat screen monitor,
> but the card won't support 1280 x 1168.
>
> GSS folded, was bought out, or got out of the business. A company called
> Ematek in Germany worked with their products for a while, and created a
> new driver called CGIVESA.SYS. In theory, this would work with any VESA
> compliant graphics card. I contacted them about 5 years ago about
> obtaining the driver, but they wanted over $100 for a license, which was
> a bit steep for my own personal use.
>
> A few years alter, I was getting increasingly desperate & tried
> contacting them again, but they had gone through similar upheavals as
> GSS, and no one remaining at the company knew anything about the driver,
> or would respond to my queries. I found one web reference to it being
> part of a big mapping package being sold by some state agency, but they
> wanted the full $700 for their package in order to get the driver.
>
> The reason I'm posting here is that I've seen additional bits of evidence
> out on the web that CGI graphics is used in other GIS applications. I'm
> wondering if anyone has a copy of CGIVESA8.SYS they could send me, along
> with any documentation on the parameter syntax & any info on video cards
> that do or do not work with it. Given that the Ematek that created it
> effectively no longer exists, I don't think there are any licensing
> issues to worry about. They certainly have showed zero interest in even
> giving me a price for it several years ago.

The application you're using is most probably DOS based.

If you're a techi, you might have a look at DOS-Emulators, like dosemu
(http://www.doseumo.org). According to the documentation at
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/...fig.html#AEN744
it is possible to configure it emulating a CGI card. I'm not very
familiar with the dosemu, but when I played around a bit a few years
ago, it did a good job.

Best regards,
Dirk.