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vlad557776:
Hello. Recently I ran into a problem with my OS/2 Warp 4 and needed a large resolution driver to fix it. I searched the whole net for the drivers, and I found the one which might work: drivers from SciTech Display Doctor. But I couldn't find the ISO or IMA of it. The only one I found was some weird OS/2 DOS only installation. There's a bunch at SciTech's FTP, but it requests a password which I couldn't find. Can someone please send me the link to these drivers? I prefer  V7 build 215 because it's confirmed to work, but any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Olafur Gunnlaugsson:
SDD for OS/2 was renamed SNAP about 2000, the freeware release of SNAP can be found here:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/system/drivers/video/snap-os2-3.1.8.zip

Dariusz Piatkowski:
I forget if the free reg code is in that release or not, but here is what I have saved:


--- Code: ---The SciTech SNAP Graphics product is no longer being actively
developed, and at least portions of the source code will be made
available under an open source license.  There will no longer be
any future versions of SNAP Graphics available from SciTech.

If you would like to use the latest SciTech release on your
computer, please use the following free registration code to
unlock the product:

Name: Free OS/2 Code
Code: 9F98-2AB9-9195-CC

Please enter the code exactly as shown above (including case).

--- End code ---

Doug Clark:
If you are running SMP SNAP will not work very well. You get multiple hangs- when the desktop tries to start, and if the desktop starts correctly, while running.

For SNAP and SMP you need ArcaOS. My opinion is ArcaOS2 is worth the money just for the updated SNAP that works with SMP. Plus there is a whole bunch of other valuable stuff to make the cost (in my opinion) easily worthwhile.

Fahrvenugen:
Hi,

I'd agree with other posts that you are better with either the version of SNAP that is on Hobbes or the version in ArcaOS.  I have to say that while there are reports of SNAP 3.1.8 not working well with SMP, I have run that version with multiple processor machines and not run into the issues reported.

If you do want the older Scitech Display Doctor, IBM did license a "special edition" of SDD version 7  which is still available at:

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak_cur/sddse704.exe

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