basicdoc.zip 7727 *** Mode 13h Doc by Vulture : An explaination of mode
| 13h - For the *absolute* beginner. Pascal, Text
bp-hires.zip 14582 * Hi Res by Ash of Bunghole Productions : Example
| of how to use mode 12h (640x480x16) Assembler
checkvsa.zip 1595 * Check VESA by London Fog : A program to detect if
| a computer has VESA support - Uhm, like...
| thanks. It's a real help. Assembler, real-mode
dk-mod10.zip 5010 ** MOD v1.0 by Dake of Devotion : Source to change
| to different text modes. More complex than
| necessary. Good commenting. Assembler
dos32vbe.zip 8951 **+ VESA 1.x tutorial for dos32 by Peter Stuge of XiA
| : Assembler
fakemode.zip 126776 **** Fake mode by Yaka of Xography : A tweak mode for
| high color resolution on a VGA - Great
| explanation of how to set up such a video mode.
| Pre-dates illumanati and ambience by Tran.
| Assembler, real-mode
killgdi.zip 15938 **** Windows GDI Killer by Kiyone of Galaxy Police :
| This .DLL gives you full access to the VGA card
| under Windows'95. Very useful if you want to
| port your demos to windows. C/C++, (INVALID
| code-language character "D" specified!)Please
| notify Snowman (r3cgm@hornet.org) immediately!
| Pascal
modsrc21.zip 18402 ** Mode Switching Routines by Jeff Morgan : These
| routines set different vga video modes without
| using the bios routines. Assembler
ptc071.zip 1750391 **** Prometheus Truecolor System by Gaffer of Xtatic :
| This is a hardware independent library for dos
| and windows for accessing the videocard. C/C++
rtvbe210.zip 58278 VESA 2.00 Development Kit v2.10 by Realtech C/C++
rvesa.zip 4523 * S-VGA Programming by Sasquatch : VESA programming
| example - Not helpful. Assembler, real-mode
rvlvbe21.zip 213888 VBE functions 2.1 by Babyloon of Revelation :
| supports VBE 1.2 & 2.0, LFB - RM & PM bank
| switching Assembler, C/C++, protected-mode
s3unit3.zip 16549 **+ S3 TPU unit by Dietmar Meschede : Source to set
| 320x240x256 and 640x480x256 modes with 1MB
| addressing on S3 chips - Doesn't directly say
| how to access that video memory or what to do
| with it. Now adays one should simply use the
| VESA BIOS. Pascal, protected-mode
t1-svga1.zip 17713 **+ Type One's SVGA Tricks Part 1 by Type One :
| Broken english. :( Lots of very useful video
| card tweaking information. Text and assembler,
| but not compileable. Text
t1svga11.zip 14657 **** SVGA Tricks by Type One of Pulpe : Contains a lot
| of information about setting specific modes,
| including some very weird ones, about
| accelerating specific videocards, etc. Text
tweakdoc.zip 5522 *+ Tweakdoc.txt by Vulture : A doc for setting mode
| X and some other tweak modes - It doesn't
| explain much (really anything) about how to use
| the mode. Text
vbe20-11.exe 553428 **** Official VESA VBE 2.0 Specification Text
vblitz13.zip 184347 * VidBlitz by Zax : A utility to give you bliting
| times from your video card - Useless? Text
vesasp12.zip 15985 **** VESA BIOS extension docs by Patch : The
| specifications of the VESA BIOS extension -
| (kinda) from VESA themselves. Text
vga-info.zip 139440 *** VGA Info by Andrew Scott : A VGA reference manual
| - Poor layout. I found it difficult to find
| things. Not as if the VGA card has changed,
| but the information seems outdated. Text
vgafx.zip 27128 *+ VGA FX by Chris Dunford : Some text effects -
| It's just some palette manipulations hidden
| (unintentionally) behind some very twisted
| code. Then again, it was coded in '89.
| Assembler, real-mode
vtime110.zip 179797 * VidTimer by Zax : A utility to give you bliting
| times from your video card - Same as
| vblitz13.zip, just a different version. Text
wtcvbe.zip 62669 Vbe 2.0 Library For Watcom by Malice of
| WitchCraft : A 100% asm VESA library with 256
| and Direct Color modes support. Included source
| code, OBJ file, Watcom header and a C example.
xmodefaq.zip 6799 **+ XMode FAQ by Phil Carlisle : Not a real faq, but
| it contains a (dated) list of code resources
| for xmode.