The Virge.card driver (included in the MEDIATOR PCI drivers package)
written by ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com

Installation Guide

The Virge.card driver is 100% compatible with the Picasso96 ver.2.1a.
The Picasso96 graphic system ver.2.0 is available from AmigaOS 3.9 CD,
with updates at http://www.picasso96.cogito.de/LatestRelease.html

Please install the Picasso96 graphic system following its
documentation. Choose Cybervison 64 3D as the graphic card.

After the Picasso96 installation, please start Picasso96 installation
once again and choose the "Update an installed version". Select only 
"Monitorsettings" and choose the frequency supported by your monitor.

After successful installation you need to:

1. Find the CVision3D and CVision3D.info in the DEVS:Monitors
   drawer, rename these files to Virge and Virge.info, respectively.

2. Change in the tool type window of Virge.icon:
   BOARDTYPE = from CVision3D to Virge.

3. Copy the enclosed Virge.card driver to the Libs:Picasso96 drawer.

4. Click to the Virge icon (in Devs:Monitors drawer).

5. Start the Picasso96Mode program (in SYS:Prefs drawer) and select
   Attach setting to Board0: Virge. 
   Exit Picasso96Mode by SAVE.



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Virge.card history
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1.0 (06 Apr 2001) - support of S3 ViRGE (86C325) and S3 ViRGE/DX
                    (86C375) chipsets,
                  - all ViRGE memory could be reserved as framme buffer
                    (see: preferences file Envarc:Mediator/VirgeMem),
                  - vblank interrupts controlled by preferences
                    file (see: Envarc:Mediator/VirgeInt),
                  - overlay modes not implemented yet.

1.1 (12 Apr 2001) - test version only

1.2 (20 Jun 2001) - workaround for S3 ViRGE chipset bug in rectangle                                         fill procedure

1.3 (14 Aug 2001) - the common MMU and NO_MMU version

Note: Virge.card ver.1.3 requires pci.library ver.4.1.            

Note: Little-endian modes are the main modes for all the PCI type cards
      designed for PC computers.
      For full compatibility with future drivers releases (TV tuner,
      Sound card, 100 MB NIC cards, ISDN cards, ...) we recommend
      using little-endian modes. 
      We added in Virge.card 15-bits and 16-bits big-endian support 
      for full compatibility with games prepared only for big-endian
      modes.

Note: Set 2MB in VirgeMem file (Envarc:Mediator/VirgeMem) if your 
      S3 ViRGE card has only 2 MB of graphic memory installed.

Please report any bugs to Virge@elbox.com

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