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Looking for an alternative to UNIVBE when running under DOS? Look no further...
AdvanceCAB is a collection of various utility to help the use of a PC with Arcade Monitors or TVs. Part of this colletion are th […]
AdvanceCAB is a collection of various utility to help the use of a PC with Arcade Monitors or TVs. Part of this colletion are the utilities: AdvanceVBE, AdvanceVGA, AdvanceVIDEO, AdvancePORTIO, AdvanceOFF.
AdvanceVBE is a TSR (Terminate Stay Resident) VBE BIOS wrapper that substitutes the default list of avaliable VBE video modes with a list of the favourite modes which work with your video hardware without any restrictions of size and frequencies.
With this utility you can play all the DOS games that use the standard VESA VBE services with your TV or Arcade Monitor.The 16 bit vbe utility supports only some of the vbeline video drivers: 3dfx, savage, sis6326, neomagic, s3, trident, cirrus and vbe3. The 32 bit vbe utility supports all the svgaline video drivers. See the AdvanceMAME DOS card list for a complete list of the supported cards by these drivers.
A project very similar to AdvanceVBE is Mon-ARC. The only big difference it's that with AdvanceVBE you can create your preferred video modes, and obviously you can share the same modes you use with AdvanceMAME. Some of the video drivers used by AdvanceVBE were originally written by Saka, one of the authors of Mon-ARC.
Another usefull project is UniRefresh for VBE3 cards and VBEPlus for multisync monitors.
AdvanceVGA is a TSR VGA BIOS wrapper that substitutes the default list of VGA video modes with a list of the favourite modes which work best with your video hardware.
AdvanceVIDEO is an utility to control the video output in your config.sys and autoexec.bat
AdvancePORTIO is an utility to control any device connected to your parallel port.
AdvanceOFF is an utility to shutdown your PC.
You can see the whole documention in the Documentation page.
It's been out for a while now, but this is a new version. Here's what's new:
ADVANCECAB VERSION 1.0.0 2002/10 ================================== * Added the VBE32 utility. It's a new 32 bit VBE BIOS whi […]
ADVANCECAB VERSION 1.0.0 2002/10
==================================
* Added the VBE32 utility. It's a new 32 bit VBE BIOS
which supports all the new video boards.
See the VBE32 documentation here
It's interesting to note that it supports TONS more video cards than UniVBE (and possibly SciTech's Nucleus/SNAP too). If someone could figure out how to "port" this to Windows NT/2000/XP, I'd be happy as a clam, as the lead programmer has no interest in doing so. He's happy with just Linux and DOS. But I digress. This should be a most interesting program. It would be cool if someone with an ancient videocard that was supported by both UNIVBE and AdvanceCAB did some speedtesting... 😀
Anyhow, get it HERE. 😀
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