Too little programs require VESA 3 (in fact, I have never seen one). Most videocard bioses are happy enough with their VESA 2.0 implementations.

also gives vesa 2.0 😉

somehow my post got its own thread ( god knows how that happened ) it was supposed to be a reply to best dos video card thread

while we're at it, what does sdd, univbe, univesa and similar drivers really do? does it fool the software into thinking that i have such and such hardware; and translate an oddball video resolution into one that my actual hardware can use? i already have a vesa3 card (geforce2mx-200 64mb) but i still can not use all the video resolutions that my nes emulators provide.

UNIVBE and SDD are just VESA software implementations.Nothing fancy at that.