Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/06/09:32:55
a DOT gillett AT virgin DOT net (Andrew R. Gillett) wrote:
> In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, article <199807051349 DOT OAA17587 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>,
> George Foot (george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> > On 5 Jul 98 at 1:50, Oliver Batchelor wrote:
> >
> > > > drivers, yes. I don't know what VESA 3 is, but Allegro supports that
> > > > too.
> > >
> > > It only supports vesa 2.0 and below.
> >
> > WIPs support VBE 3.0. From Allegro's ChangeLog:
> >
> > : =================================================
> > : ============ Changes from 3.0 to WIP ============
> > : =================================================
> > : [...]
> > : Added VBE 3.0 support, including new triple buffering routines.
>
> I don't use WIPs. And I have never seen any program that actually uses
> VESA 3 other than Display Doctor itself. When Allegro 3.1 or whatever is
> released, I will start using VESA 3.
There are some BIOS that have VESA 3.0. For example: The machine
where I'm writing this mail have an AGP board with nVIDIA RIVA 128
chip and the BIOS supports VESA 3.0 so isn't a thing that only
Display Doctor supports.
VBE/AF drivers have LFB and acceleration so they are MUCH faster that
VESA 2, that's a fact.
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