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DIVE (Direct Interface to Video Extensions)

Release date:

Wednesday, 20 December, 1995

Home:

https://ibm.com

License:

Freeware

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Tom Harding

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

DIVE is a DLL that provides optimized blitting performance for motion video subsystems and applications that perform rapid screen updates in the OS/2 PM and full-screen environments. Using DIVE functions, applications can either write directly to video memory or use the DIVE blitter to get a high level of screen update performance, image scaling, color space conversion, and bank-switch display support. The DIVE blitter utilizes acceleration hardware when present and applicable to the function being performed.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

DIVE (Direct Interface to Video Extensions) (18/11/1998, Tom Harding)	Readme/What's new	DIVE fix for Matrox 24-bit color problems. The file contains a DIVE.DLL tested with Warp 4 and FixPak 9. This fix will be included in a future FixPak. As of now it is unsupported by IBM, so save your old MMOS2\DLL\DIVE.DLL in case you have problems. It wouldn't hurt to have a current driver from Matrox.
www.hobbesarchive.com/Hobbes/pub/os2/system/patches/mixed/DIVEFix_1998-11-18.zip	local copy
DIVE (Direct Interface to Video Extensions) (20/12/1995, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM))
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/patches/warp_3/dive1295.zip
DIVE (Direct Interface to Video Extensions) (Information about DIVE API, 26/6/1995)	Readme/What's new	Information about DIVE API
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/dive/divestuf.zip