The ZVG (which stands for Zektor Vector Generator) is a vector generator which attaches to a PC through a ECP compatible parallel port, and allows a PC to control a vector monitor.

The ZVG Software Development Kit for Linux provides a C interface to the ZVG.

• sdk.txt
• zvgCmds.txt:

sdk.txt

Documents the SDK usage.

zvgCmds.txt

Documents the low level command set used to talk directly to the ZVG.

More information is available on the Zektor ZVG website.

Make sure you have the development libraries for Curses and Threads installed. Then, from the repository root:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

The following appears throughout the source code:

(c) Copyright 2002-2003, Zektor, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The ZVG Software Development Kit is hosted on GitHub by permission of Zonn Moore - CTO and Founder of Zektor, LLC.

• Zonn Moore wrote the ZVG Software Development Kit 1.1a for DOS.
• Brent Jarvis ported the source to Linux, excluding DMA support. Although much of it isn't used in the current version of this library, it is the inspiration.
• Steve Johnson also ported the source to Linux. This is the source of the current version of this library.
• James Rhew packaged and currently maintains the source on GitHub.