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Original source code for the PowerVR Series 1 GPUs : Midas Arcade, PCX1 and PCX2

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2022-03-23 · latest 2025-01-06

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  1. …rights for that part of the operating system when they made it the native driver to OS/2. [0] https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1
    comment by molticrystal · 2025-01-06 · in Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
  2. …no RTL but I'm guessing the simulator is based on it given some of the weird coding patterns. [0] - https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1
    comment by bpye · 2023-08-07 · in How does a mobile GPU work? [pdf]
  3. …hardware itself worked, some of it certainly looks like a rough translation from the RTL... [0] - https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1
  4. …would be an interesting write up if someone sat down and really wanted to understand it. [0] - https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1
  5. …but through a LUT [2], which I guess, yield better results but was a bit slower on 90's arch. [1] https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1/blob/mai... [2] https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1/blob/mai...
  6. Code is problematic: multilne defines: https://github.com/powervr-graphics/PowerVR-Series1/blob/c8c... Looks like they didn't know the "do{...}while(0)" trick.