Atomic Spin

I’ve just re-planted our VMWareFB OpenStep display driver to Github, and I’ve updated our existing web page accordingly. Precompiled, compressed configs are now available in the downloads section of the new Github project page.

Special thanks to Andreas Grabher and other folks over at www.nextcomputers.org for solving the chronic problem of running at resolutions higher than 1024×768. Andreas has provided an updated source tree and config file, so after 8 years we’re moving from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0.

It’s been almost 8 years since Bill Bereza first wrote this SVGA driver for our customers over at Valley City Linen and we’ve hardly tinkered with it since. Lots of people have found and used it over the years, and are still using it today. It’s a pleasant surprise that it continues to work reasonably well for people out there in NeXT land.

Now that the code is out where people can freely update and re-release it, I hope to pull in a few interested members of the NeXT/OpenStep community and let them take it from here. I know a few people have privately hacked or updated the driver to work better for their own installations; I’d love to have them fold those updates back into the public source.

(Thanks to Marissa Christy for the cool logo sketches!)