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Question about MS-Dos Univbe.exe?

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First post, by brostenen

Posted on 2016-07-11, 22:30

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When I use a PCI or ISA vga card that are Vesa compliant, I can access that technology when running the tool called univbe.exe
When I have a Vesa Local Bus gfx card, then what use is the tool? Or are the name of the VL-Bus misleading to me?

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Reply 1 of 2, by gerwin

Posted on 2016-07-11, 22:37

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With univbe you can add VESA BIOS extensions to any supported ISA/VLB/PCI/AGP card. I have a VESA v1.2 compatible VLB card here and I can use univbe to make it run resolutions it normally won't support (640x400).
I can use later versions of univbe to make the card VESA v2.0 or v3.0 compatible, but these versions take more memory and I only need it for the 640x400 resolution anyways.

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Reply 2 of 2, by brostenen

Posted on 2016-07-11, 22:53

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Thanks for clearing this up for me. 😀

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