Acknowledgments

Last updated on October the 28th, 2000.


  • Acknowledgments:

    This is a section I've been willing to do for some time. There have been some really cool people out there helping me out, if not with code tips or even hardware, at least slapping me from time to time to keep me awake and to get this project going on. The following list is by no means a complete list. I will first list the persons who originally contributed more to this project (more than 2 years ago), followed by the the rest of the folks who I remember at this time. To all the others that don't get mentioned (coz I forgot, surely!), a big T H A N K S!

    Tomi Engdahl - The man himself. The original VGA2TV driver, author of the VGA to SCART project, gave me the reason to do my own driver and hardware. He gave me lots of info on this, since at the time I was completely blank on respect to TV stuff.
    Finn Thoegersen - The author of VGADOC, the most complete chipset programming information package on the web. His documentation is invaluable, and without it VGATV wouldn't probably exist today.
    Herman Dullink - For helping out on VESA issues (lots of info), S3 and Tseng Labs chipsets (interlace programming) and Mode X programming.
    Avery Lee - Helped a bit on mode X, comments on an initial test program, info on how to turn protection off in the S3 chipset, and testing this in a Genoa Phantom 64 board.
    Rui "Gusm�o" Rodrigues (CT1FKP) - He actually built my first RGB-composite video circuit, after my design. He has helped in diagnosing some problems and he lets me use his oscilloscope :-)

    There's also :

    Tom Browne - This great chap sent me a nice S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP board all the way from the UK, for free, for me to add support to VGATV for it. Tom runs a S3 support site, called S3 Planet along with some friends of his. If you have a S3 card or plan to buy one, be sure to check it out.
    Santiago Garcia Mantinan or Manty for short. Has helped me port VGATV to TASM, gave it proper TSR operation, kept me working on it and also served as a great beta tester.
    Den - A Russian fellow who gave me a nice tip on fixing a Trident bug.
    Tarsicio Trujillo - Another nice Spanish guy, from Islas Canarias (Canary Islands). Besides other stuff, he was the first to send me a nice postcard from where he lives.
    Roberto - From Italy, he kept bothering me about VGATV some years ago, making me keep thinking of VGATV at a time I had a lot of other things to do.
    Wyatcheslaw Sizyj - Another one from Ukraine, has helped me get the Realtek support as it should be. Thanks for the info!
    Chris Greco - For sending me a postcard (actually, 2!) and giving info on Analog Devices' AD725 evaluation board.
    X Laci - Also for sending a postcard from his hometown, Budapest.

    Also thanks to S3 and Cirrus Logic for supplying me with databooks, indispensable for this kind of work.

    As you see, I left an enormous bunch of people out. I'll update this section now more often now, but of course not all people reporting problems or serving as beta testers can end up here or this page would take forever to load :-)
    If you believe you should have your name mentioned here, of if I clearly forgot someone important (which is you!) then please tell me.

    I'd also like to thank Dale Roberts since he was the author of the NT device driver I used with WinVGATV, which I modified just barely.


  • Contributions:

    If you want to colaborate by sending programming information, you can either use my e-mail address, or my surface mail address. In particular, the later when you want to send that nice postcard from where you live. Do so to:

    Paulo S�rgio Coelho
    Praceta do Miradouro, 9, R/C Frt-Esq.
    Quinta Grande-Alfragide
    2720-375 Amadora
    Portugal

    Mail-bombs will be returned to the sender, should they fit on the mail slot...
    Also, "virtual" postcards don't mean much more to me than a simple e-mail. So, don't ask about sending one because I'll say that I prefer a proper postcard.

  • World of VGATV:

    Since I can't get a way of knowing from where people access this site, the best I can do is check the mail people send me regarding VGATV. The map below shows from where people have contacted me, which is an indirect way of showing where VGATV is used. Click on the map to get the big picture. Don't worry, its about 30Kb big.

    Look at the countries in red

    If your country doesn't appear in here, let me know!