Black Doomer Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 (edited) I'm looking for files that were once available on ftp.microsoft.com. Found mention of them here: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.microsoft.com/developr/drg/CHANGES.TXT Quote ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFiles/DCIDDK*.exe Microsoft Windows DCI DDK v1.0 for Windows 3.1 This is the Microsoft Windows Display Control Interface (DCI) Driver Developer Kit (DDK) version 1.0, for Microsoft Windows 3.1. This DCI DDK is available in 3 separate files (each map to a disk in floppy distribution), named in dciddk<x>.exe, in self-extracting archive format. Disk 1 contains the DDK executables, sample source, spec and documentation. Disk 2 contains test applications. Disk 3 contains the Video for Windows 1.1D run-time. Quote ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Developr/DRG/DCI/dci.zip Microsoft Intel DCI Specification v1.4 This is the "Microsoft Intel Display Control Interface", version 1.4, dated June 13, 1994. The DCI for the Microsoft Windows operating system is a driver-level software interface which provides access to display devices while maintaining compatibility with Windows GDI. It provides a device-independent way for Windows subsystem software such as 3-D graphics packages, games interface packages, or digital video codecs to access display device-dependent features. Applications should be using WinG and Video for Windows, which will use DCI or other methods to communicate efficiently with the hardware, and also work on Windows NT. DCI works with Windows 3.1 and will work with Windows "Chicago"; due to architectural differences, Windows NT does not support DCI, which is under consideration. This specification provides information for implementing and using DCI. Dci.zip contains dci.doc, a Microsoft Word document. I have already checked these places, but didn't find anything there: https://archive.org/details/ftp.microsoft.com https://archive.org/details/2002-07-02_ftp.microsoft.com https://archive.org/details/softlib.7z If there also was a version of this DDK for Windows 95 somewhere, please let me know. Edited April 21 by Black Doomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetLow Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, Black Doomer said: If there also was a version of this DDK for Windows 95 somewhere, please let me know. For 9x modern version of hardware accelerated access interfaces exists: Direct Draw DDI & Direct 3D DDI available in ME DDK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Doomer Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 15 minutes ago, SweetLow said: For 9x modern version of hardware accelerated access interfaces exists: Direct Draw DDI & Direct 3D DDI available in ME DDK. Yep, I know, but I need specifically DCI. This technology is even present on Windows 7 (dciman32.dll), though I don't know if it's there in its geniune form or as a wrapper on top of something newer. And it was used by GDI+, so I'm interested in learning about it from the inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winster95 Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 You might find some info on DCI in Video for Windows SDK for Windows 3.1. Also, check the docs and code examples from early edition of Windows 95 SDK or beta SDKs. For example, build 484: https://archive.org/search?query=build+484 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Doomer Posted May 1 Author Share Posted May 1 9 hours ago, Winster95 said: You might find some info on DCI in Video for Windows SDK for Windows 3.1. Could you please give me a hint how to obtain it? I found only full Windows 3.1 SDK, but it doesn't seem to have VfW. 9 hours ago, Winster95 said: Also, check the docs and code examples from early edition of Windows 95 SDK or beta SDKs. For example, build 484: https://archive.org/search?query=build+484 Thanks, I took a look. But alas, it’s not there either (or it’s just me that didn’t dig too thoroughly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) Yesterday I found a stack of my old mid-90's sdks, ddks, and msdn discs. I'm starting to search them now.... Edit: I found Vfw1.1e from late 1994, but it is too new. Because of the big lawsuit with Microsoft, Intel, and Canyon, all DCI samples were scrubbed and DCI was on the way out. We need to find Vfw1.1d from before September 1994. Edited May 2 by jumper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Doomer Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 17 hours ago, jumper said: We need to find Vfw1.1d from before September 1994. It's actually available on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/vfw11d But it contains nothing related to DCI DDK, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumper Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 (edited) Is there sample code: drivers or apps? Edited May 3 by jumper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Doomer Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 16 hours ago, jumper said: Is there sample code: drivers or apps? No, it's just a redistributable runtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winster95 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) On 5/1/2024 at 5:39 PM, Black Doomer said: Could you please give me a hint how to obtain it? I found only full Windows 3.1 SDK, but it doesn't seem to have VfW. Thanks, I took a look. But alas, it’s not there either (or it’s just me that didn’t dig too thoroughly). Uhm... This should contain V4W SDK: https://archive.org/details/msdn-1996-04 But it's likely that it won't contain DCI stuff (anyway, I would still check) as it's from 1996. Maybe an earlier version of MSDN cds from 1994? I found this one, but it has a bunch of (7z compressed) iso files: https://archive.org/details/MSDNOctober1994 I would check WIN16 and WIN32SDK discs. I guess ADD_16BIT and ADD_32BIT are likely to contain addons for 16-bit and 32-bit SDKs. Might be worth checking too. The rest CDS are likely related to Windows NT 3.5 (or its beta). There are docs for VFW 1.1e DK here, but no downloads: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/11931/2002-07-02_ftp.microsoft.com.zip/developr/drg/Multimedia/Jumpstart/VfW11e/DK/DEV_KIT.TXT As Jumper said this might not contain DCI stuff. Although, looking into it, they only removed dcivesa (or similar - which is a generic DCI driver) from redistributable. Might be possible there are other DCI drivers in it. Or not. Should be checked. Same for DK. Edited May 5 by Winster95 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winster95 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) Nah, it doesn't seem that vfw1.1d contain any other DCI drivers. Only driver with DCI in the name is DCISVGA.DRV. Edited May 5 by Winster95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABCDEFG Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 Man, is this what you were looking for? C:\DCI. ├───DISK1 │ │ LICENSE.DOC │ │ LOADBMP.DOC │ │ README.TXT │ │ SPEC16.DOC │ │ │ └───DEVKIT │ ├───BIN │ │ DCIMAN.DLL │ │ DCISVGA.DRV │ │ DVA.386 │ │ ICCVID.DRV │ │ IR32.DLL │ │ MSVIDEO.DLL │ │ UDH.DLL │ │ │ ├───INC │ │ COMPDDK.H │ │ DCIDDI.H │ │ DCIMAN.H │ │ │ ├───LIB │ │ DCIMAN.LIB │ │ │ └───SAMPLE │ ATI68800.ASM │ BRESNHAM.C │ CBLIT.ASM │ CLIPBLIT.C │ CONVERT.ASM │ DCIENTRY.C │ DCIEXFNS.C │ DCIHDW.C │ DCIHDW.H │ DCIMACRO.INC │ DCISAMP.C │ DCISAMP.DEF │ DCISAMP.RC │ DEBUG.H │ GDIDEFS.INC │ MAKEFILE │ READNDX.ASM │ STRBLIT.ASM │ STUBAPI.ASM │ VALIDBMP.C │ VERSION.H │ VERSION.RCV │ ├───DISK2 │ LOADBMP.DLL │ TDCITEST.EXE │ TMCIAVI.EXE │ └───VFW11DRT ACMCMPRS.DL_ AVICAP.DL_ AVIFILE.DL_ CLEANUP.RE_ COMPOBJ.DL_ CTL3D.DL_ DCISVGA.DR_ DISPDIB.DL_ DVA.38_ ICCVID.DR_ IMAADPCM.AC_ INIUPD.DL_ IR21_R.DL_ IR32.DL_ MAP_WIN.HL_ MCIAVI.DR_ MCIOLE.DL_ MPLAYER.EX_ MPLAYER.HL_ MPLAYER.RE_ MSACM.DL_ MSACM.DR_ MSADPCM.AC_ MSCOMSTF.DL_ MSCPYDIS.DL_ MSCPYDIS.IN_ MSCUISTF.DL_ MSDETECT.IN_ MSDETSTF.DL_ MSINSSTF.DL_ MSRLE.DR_ MSSHLSTF.DL_ MSUILSTF.DL_ MSVIDC.DR_ MSVIDEO.DL_ OLE2.DL_ OLE2.RE_ OLE2CONV.DL_ OLE2DISP.DL_ OLE2NLS.DL_ OLE2PROX.DL_ PROFDISP.EX_ SETUP.EXE SETUP.INI SETUP.IN_ SETUP.LST SETUP.MST SETUPAPI.IN_ STDOLE.TL_ STORAGE.DL_ TYPELIB.DL_ _MSSETUP.EX_ _MSTEST.EX_ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winster95 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 @ABCDEFGYes, that was what I was writing about above. Have you found the files or only the filelist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Doomer Posted May 10 Author Share Posted May 10 On 5/6/2024 at 4:28 PM, ABCDEFG said: Man, is this what you were looking for? Looks very promising. Could you please tell me where you got this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABCDEFG Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 (edited) @Winster95 Da, imam te fajlove u mojoj arhivi. EN: Yes, i have those files in my archive. @Black Doomer I don't remember exactly when I got them, but I have a large archive of almost everything for 9x systems. Edited May 11 by ABCDEFG 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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