Posted by Sharvil Nanavati on 2000-10-22
Hey, I was just wondering - I thought the VBE 2.0 was a STANDARD?? I mean, if you go to VESA's site (vesa.org), it says the 2.0 BIOS extensions were agreed upon in 1994... and the book "More Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus" by Sams Publishing has a chapter on the VBE. "[Now, in 1995] we are at a point where almost where almost all new computers are supplied with VESA-compliant SVGA cards. In another year or so, you'll be able to forget about VESA incompatibilities altogether." Hmm... year 2000. Y2K. Why is it that SO MANY cards don't support the VBE?? I wrote a program and sent it to a few friends. I sent it to 4 people. Turns out, their cards don't support this so-called "standard". One just bought a brand new computer with a 32 MB video card (forget which one - came with 3D glasses). Is it me or is something wrong? And is there anything I can do about it? Thx. Cheers, Sharvil Nanavati P.S. I know there's SciTechSoft's UniVBE (or "Display Doctor" as it's now called) but that would require all my users to buy it. Which is bad. And if they get the trial version, it'll run for only 30 days. Meaning MY software will only run for 30 days. :( Plz help!!!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
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