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               SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2
                       PREVIEW RELEASE 18
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Where do you get it?

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2 BETA 18 from our
ftp site using the following URL:

  ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.0-b18.exe 


What is SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2?

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and 
Windows device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System. 
Although one of the core features of our DOS and Windows products is 
the support for the VESA VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has 
nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display 
Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics 
Architecture device driver technology to bring SciTech's device 
support to the OS/2 platform. 

SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver 
architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop 
and test the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows environments,
while being able to target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime 
environment (such as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product 
to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and 
Windows versions of the product, improving the quality and 
performance of the drivers for all supported operating systems.  


Runtime Requirements

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 requires a version of OS/2 Warp 3 or 
OS/2 Warp 4 in order to run. More imporantly, it requires at least 
Warp 3 with fixpack 35, or Warp 4 with fixpack 5 installed. If you 
have a version with earlier fixpacks installed, SciTech Display 
Doctor will refuse to install. 


List of all supported chips:

This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this 
version of SciTech Display Doctor supports. Please note that this 
list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level 
implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or 
STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use 
S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of
memory cannot be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.  

. 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3
. ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 ET, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage
. ATI Mach64 VTB, 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC
. ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage 128
. ATI Rage 128 Pro
. Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
. Alliance ProMotion AT3D
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446,
  Laguna 5462
. Cirrus Logic Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
. Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
. InteGraphics CyberPro 2000, CyberPro 2010
. Intel i740, i740 PCI
. Macronix 86250, 86251
. Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
. Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
. NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64
. NVIDIA RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra
. Number Nine Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Ticket 2 Ride
. Number Nine Ticket 2 Ride IV
. Philips 9710, 9712
. Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2200
. S3 Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Aurora64V+
. S3 Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX, Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D
. S3 Trio3D/2X, Savage3D, Savage4, Savage2000
. SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620, 300
. Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
. Trident TGUI9440, TGUI9440-R2, TGUI9660, TGUI9680, ProVidia 9682
. Trident ProVidia 9685, 3DImage 975, 3DImage 985, Blade 3D
. Tseng Labs ET6000, ET6100
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0

Note that there are many more chipsets that will work with our 
existing legacy VBE/AF based drivers, that are not included in this 
list. For a complete list of all chipsets supported in our prior 
Windows and DOS products, please visit our web site. We are currently
in the process of moving all our existing device support code to our
new SciTech Nucleus device driver architecture. The above list only 
lists those drivers that have been converted, and we won't be 
supporting any chipsets not on the list until those drivers are 
properly converted.  

Changes in this BETA:

 . All changed are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked 
   at the following URL:
   
      http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt 
 
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