First post, by Jo22
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Hello everyone,
I suppose this had been discussed a thousand time,
but I felt the need to provide some feedback.
In the past years, I had a lot of trouble getting UNIVBE to work on various PCs.
It turned out, well it seems like that at least, that it was because I wasn't mainstream enough.:
The PCs I tried UNIVBE on were having ISA VGAs and 16-Bit processors.
Both seemingly not supported by the common flavours of UNIVBE.
If I was, say, a mentally healthy 486DX4 user with an VLB board or something, I would have never noticed perhaps. 😉
Unfortunately, I wasn't. So I was really asking for trouble, perhaps.:
UNIVBE51 (VBE2 support) required a 32-Bit CPU according to its readme,
but UNIVBE50 didn't mention it and installed in memory on 16-Bit systems,
even boldly claimed to have installed 32-Bit extensions, just to hang everything when really needed.
UNIVESA, by contrast, didn't work either, but at least closed gracefully without crashing.
The only one apparently correctly working on my 286 with an OAK-67 is UNIVBE40.
It loads correctly and is a little bit quicker than the VBE TSR by OAK. It's a bit smaller, also.
Unfortunately, it's VBE 1.x still, but that's okay for now.
Anyway, I just thought I should mention this.
Best regards,
Jo22
Edit: I was judging too quickly. NO$GMB doesn't like UNIVBE40, but is fine with the OAK TSR..
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