Picasso authors contact?

[Heiroglyph]

I know this is an old, tired subject, but I'm making one last attempt here...

I want to make a Picasso driver for the Prometheus without pissing off either the Picasso authors (like Elbox did) or pissing off users for reverse engineering one.

Does anyone have contact info for Tobias Abt or Alexander Kneer?

I'm even willing to pay them if it's not an astronomical fee, they will be free drivers after all.

I'd like to make a case for allowing me to write legal, free, non-hacked drivers for a couple of cards that aren't 20 years old.  If it's not against the NDA, I'll even open source the thing.

Pretty much the only viable Prometheus card is the Voodoo3 and those aren't easy to come by like ATI or Nvidia.

Of all the things NOT to go open source once it was abandoned, I think this one is hurting us the most

[Heiroglyph]

If the email addresses in the documentation don't work (which I expect that you have already tried), then I have no idea.

Hans

I had tried those over a year ago unfortunately, back when I got the full OpenPCI SDK.

Looks like Gulliver's going to hook me up.

Fingers crossed...

[Heiroglyph]

Email sent.

Lets all cross our fingers...

[Heiroglyph]

If this fails, what became of CyberGraphx?  Would they more easily convinced to let me have the DDK?

Did that roll into MorphOS?  I'm not even sure what the availability is like on MorphOS these days, hopefully there is a sane open DDK there at least.

RTG isn't trade-secret rocket science, it's a shame it has been so hard to let the users help themselves on AOS.