Posted by Thomas Mathys on 2000-10-23
> 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 well, most new cards i've seen have at least a vesa 2.0 bios, but those bioses often don't support those nice lo-res modes, such as 320x240x32. i guess this is because vesa 2.0 is important for dos programs, and who writes dos programs nowadays ? (ok, some do:) so most gfx cards come with at least usable windows drivers, but only a lousy vesa 2.0 bios. and if the card for some reason isn't supported by display doctor, well... so i guess you can't do much about it, except writing software for a more modern os thomas
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