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UniVBE
UniVBE (short for ''Universal VESA BIOS Extensions'') is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any display device made in the last 15 years or so. The UniVBE driver was written by SciTech Software and is also available in their product called SciTech Display Doctor. The primary benefit is increased compatibility and performance with DOS games. Many video cards have sub-par implementations of the VESA standards, or no support at all. UNIVBE replaces the card's built-in support. Many DOS games include a version of UNIVBE because VESA issues were so widespread. According to SciTech Software Inc, SciTech Display Doctor is licensed by IBM as the native graphics driver solution for OS/2. History The software started out as ''The Universal VESA TSR'' (UNIVESA), written by Kendall Bennett. It was renamed to ''Universal VESA BIOS Extensions'' (UniVBE) in version 4.2 at the request of Video Electronics Standards Association, VESA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VESA BIOS Extensions
VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) is 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 is opposed to the "traditional" int 10h BIOS calls, which are limited to resolutions of 640×480 pixels with 16 color (4-bit) depth or less. VBE is made available through the video card's BIOS, which installs during boot up some interrupt vectors that point to itself. Most newer cards implement the more capable VBE 3.0 standard. Older versions of VBE provide only a real mode interface, which cannot be used without a significant performance penalty from within protected mode operating systems. Consequently, the VBE standard has almost never been used for writing a video card's drivers; each vendor has thus had to invent a proprietary protocol for communicating with its own video card. Despite this, it is common that a driver thunk out to the real mode interrupt in order to initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SciTech Software
SciTech Software, Inc. was a privately held software company based in Chico, California. Founded by Kendall Bennett in 1996, SciTech Software, Inc. developed many popular graphics device driver programs for the PC, ranging from UniVESA (later renamed to UniVBE UniVBE (short for ''Universal VESA BIOS Extensions'') is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any display device made in the last 15 years or so. The UniVBE driver was written by SciTec ...) to SciTech Display Doctor and SciTech SNAP Graphics and SciTech SNAP Audio. It is now acquired by Alt Richmond Inc. References Software companies established in 1996 Privately held companies based in California Software companies based in California Software companies of the United States {{Compu-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |