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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: a DOT gillett AT virgin DOT net (Andrew R. Gillett), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:36:40 +0000
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Subject: Re: Allegro graphics driver detection
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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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