CompuServe Messages

Oops, sorry. I thought you knew what I was talking about. This thread is going on for while between me and Nik and, I thought, he had given you the scoop… First of all, I'm writing a couple of VTPADI drivers for a couple of different machines. The first one was for the SONY laser disk recorder. I have written a (dos) driver for the Bandit box and I would like, now, to port it to an ADI. The problem with the TERMINATE packet is that I never get one. I placed a trap at the entry point dumping all incoming packets out to the COM port and I never saw the TERMINATE packet comming through. I need to have a couple of interrupt handlers and I have to be notified when I'm out so I can return the interrupt vectors to their rightful owners. The Out/In Shell work just fine (as just about everything else). The thing about the EDIT packet, the system (standard VTPADI) assumes the VTR, or what have yoy, is "seeing" the image from the frame buffer. So it only sends an edit command. In the case of the Bandit, I need to download the image buffer through the SCSI port. I have to have access to the image buffer. It's just a pointer and I'm sure is there somewhere as it is given to the display drivers. As I said earlier, I could hack through TEE and grab the pointer from the Rendering device but, what happens if the thing is being rendered to a NULL device? Too messy.