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Wanted - Windows Device Driver for Frame Grabber

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From: Ben Simons
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 07:34
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Hi
	I've got a 386 running Windows 3.0 with a Data Translation (DT2862) 
Video Frame Grabber. I've managed to write code to grab frames and play with
the sync and all that sort of I/O port stuff, but i can't actually access
any of the data in the frame buffer because it's located so high in memory
( at 0xa00000 ) and Windows won't let me point to such a physical addr
(as i expect you all know).
	I assume that what i'll need to do then is put together some sort of
device driver (using the device driver development toolkit). 

	My question(s) are:

	1. Do i really need to write a device driver to access the pixels
	   in the frame buffer, or is there another way?

	2. Has someone (out there) already done this? (i hope so!)

	3. Having had a great deal of trouble finding out ANYTHING about
	   the "DD Toolkit", can anyone tell me whether it's worth the
	   money (Australian $620) - I suspect i have no choice but to buy it.

Thanks a lot!
ben.
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From: ben@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Ben Simons)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: Wanted - Windows Device Driver for Frame Grabber
Summary: I want to drive a Data Translation DT2862 Board from Windows 3.0
Keywords: device driver frame grabber windows video wanted
Message-ID: <134@asgard.mlb.dmt.csiro.au>
Date: 3 Dec 90 07:34:09 GMT
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Organization: CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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