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| | VESA BIOS Extensions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) comprise a VESA standard, currently at version 3, that defines the interface that can be used by software to access compliant video boards at high resolutions and bit depths. | | | This meant that the VBE standard was almost never used for writing video-drivers, and each video board vendor had to invent a proprietary protocol for communicating with their own board(s). | | | Unfortunately, the older versions of VBE (those bundled with the vast majority of existing video boards) supported only a real mode interface, which couldn't be used without a significant performance penalty from within protected mode operating systems, such as Windows 95 or Linux. |
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http://www.netipedia.com/index.php/VESA_BIOS_Extensions
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| | SuperVGA/VESA programmer's notes. |
| | It has nothing to do with VESA Local Bus (VLB), which is another standard from the same group about a completely different hardware problem. | | | Have a look in ftp.scitech.com, under devel/svgakt51.zip INTER45?.ZIP - Ralf Brown's extensive interrupt list in electronic form, includes VESA int 10h extensions - latest version includes version 2.0 functions. | | | They defined a new standard programmer's interface so that programmers would only have to write one set of graphics routines for SuperVGA. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pc-hardware-faq/supervga-programming
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| | Ring Zero - Programmer Resources |
| | This document containins information on the VBE (Super VGA) interface for programming to VESA compliant video cards. | | | This book covers the basics of game programming using the C programming language. | | | Straight from the people at Intel, this is an introductory document to the Protected Mode architecture found on Intel 386 (and later) microprocessors. |
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http://netdial.caribe.net/~adrian2/programmer.html
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| | The Civil War |
| | The installation recommends installing more of the program files for smoother game play but on a DX4-100 there was no noticeable difference in processing speed between the installations. | | | I did have a problem with my VESA driver and the BIOS on my Genoa Hornet 2 MB Dram card and I needed to use a shareware TSR called Univbe to keep the graphic images from smearing when I used the mouse. | | | Between 2MB and 45MB of HD depending on installation chosen |
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http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/cafe/html/reviews/civlwar.htm
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