From: Lajos Bicsak <lala AT acomp DOT hu>
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Subject: Re: SVGA in DOS (or Win, or Linux...)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:27:32 +0100
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I've seen a library which supports VBE/AF and earlier standards
named SciTech MGL 4.0, and it's available free.
It supports DJGPP also.

I think we must use it for maximum compatibility with any cards.

						Lajos.

Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> VBE 2.0 doesn't support them, but VBE/AF does. At present SciTech have
> implemented /AF drivers for ATI, S3, Tseng, and I think Cirrus boards,
> and promise much wider support in the next version of UniVBE. The VBE/AF
> spec is currently only available by purchase from the VESA people (see
> www.vesa.org for details), but SciTech told me that they are agitating
> for a public release of the standard, and VBE/AF 2.0 will probably be
> freely distributable. I think it is a very nice and well designed API,
> keeping all the good things about VBE 2.0 while discarding most of the
> problems and legacy 16 bit code, adding OS portability (a VBE/AF driver
> could theoretically be used under Linux, or indeed any protected mode
> i386 system), along with a relatively painless way to access hardware
> accelerator features. I really hope that this will become an established
> standard for DOS graphics, and the only reason I haven't already written
> a VBE/AF driver for Allegro is that I am still waiting for SciTech to
> implement it on my Matrox card :-)