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   UNIVESA - UNIVERSELLE VESA-EXTENSION VON KENDALL BERNETT
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      Diese Datei enthlt Hinweise zur Nutzung des Treibers UNIVESA.EXE
      als Ersatz fr einen kartenspezifischen Treiber. Dieser univer-
      sell einsetzbare Treiber untersttzt eine ganze Menge Grafikkar-
      ten.


    Original-Dokumentation
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                         The Universal VESA TSR
                         ----------------------

                   Copyright (C) 1993 Kendall Bennett
                           All rights reserved.

       What is it?
       -----------

       The Universal VESA TSR is a small Terminate and Stay Resident
       (TSR) program that provides extends the Video BIOS routines of
       SuperVGA video cards to make them compatible with the Video
       Electonics Standards Association (VESA) recommended extensions.

       By having a video card that has a VESA compatible BIOS, or by
       installing this small TSR, programs that support the VESA
       programming interface will work correctly for your SuperVGA.
       This helps to solve a lot of problems with compatability between
       different SuperVGA cards on the market.


       Why use it?
       -----------

       You may already have a VESA TSR for you video card, or you video
       card may have a VESA compatible BIOS already, so why would you
       want to use this program?

       The simple answer is that most of the TSR's that exist today,
       and a lot of the not-so-new SuperVGA cards that are around
       implement an older version of the VESA programming interface (if
       any at all). For this reason, some programs that use the
       advanced features of the new VESA standard will not work with
       the TSR or BIOS that you currently have.

       So what advanced features does this TSR provide that other's
       don't? The Universal VESA TSR implements the VESA Version 1.2
       programming interface, which supports the following features:

           - VESA page flipping. High performance animation programs
             can use your card to full potential using the VESA BIOS
             to implement extended page flipping (imagine, 1024x768x16
             double buffered animation, or even 800x600x256 and
             640x400x32k on a 1Mb video card!!).

           - Support for the 32k and 16 million color video modes. As
             well as supporting the industry standard 16 and 256 color
             video modes.


       Hardware Requirements
       ---------------------

       The Universal VESA TSR contains '386 dependant code, so it will
       only run on machine that have and 80386 or better CPU. Currently
       the Universal VESA TSR supports the following SuperVGA chipsets
       (note that not all of these have been fully tested):

           - ATI Technologies 18800, 28800
           - Ahead A & B
           - Chips & Technologies 82c451/452/453
           - Everex
           - Genoa Systems GVGA
           - OAK Technologies OTI-037C, OTI-067, OTI-077
           - Paradise PVGA1A, WD90C00/10/11/30/31
           - NCR 77C20/21/22E
           - Trident 88/8900
           - Video7 V7VGA versions 1-5
           - Tseng Labs ET3000, ET4000
           - AcuMos AVGA2
           - S3 86c911/924/801/806/928
           - Advance Logic AL2101 SuperVGA
           - MXIC 86010 SuperVGA
           - Primus 2000 SuperVGA
           - RealTek 3106 SuperVGA
           - Cirrus CL-GD 5422 SuperVGA

       The Universal VESA TSR seems to have problems with QEMM, since
       QEMM does something weird with the Video BIOS. In order to fix
       this problem, you should use the QEMM 'exclude' options to
       exclude the Video BIOS area. Do this by including the following
       in the QEMM options:

           EXCLUDE=C000-C1FF


       How do I install it?
       --------------------

       You can install the TSR from the command line, or from your
       autoexec.bat file. Don't worry about installing it twice, it
       will automatically detect if you have already installed it.

       To install it simply type:

           univesa

       from the command line. It will determine what type of SuperVGA
       card you have installed and install itself accordingly.

       When installed the Universal VESA TSR takes up approximately 7k
       of memory. All of the code required to detect the video adapter
       and available video modes is removed after the program is
       installed, saving on the amount of memory required. You may also
       load the TSR high.


       Can I get the source code?
       --------------------------

       Yes, the full source code for this library is available, along
       with a number of test programs (with source) for programming
       SuperVGA cards in a device independant manner in a SuperVGA Test
       Kit Library. You can probably download this from Simtel-20 or
       garbo (or one of it's mirrors) or you can ftp the absolute
       latest version from:

           godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au: kjb/MGL/svgakt??.zip


       How can I contact the Author?
       -----------------------------

       If you have any corrections or updates to the code in this
       package, or you have any questions you would like asked, feel
       free to contact me through one of the following methods.

       Internet:   kjb@citri.edu.au

       Snail Mail:

       Home:       Kendall Bennett
                   15 Stevenson Street
                   Kew Victoria 3101
                   AUSTRALIA

       Work:       Kendall Bennett
                   RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre
                   CITRI Building, 723 Swanston Street
                   Carlton Victoria 3053
                   AUSTRALIA


     Installation
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       Der englische Originaltext ist nur fr den jenigen interessant,
       der ihn zu mehr als nur zur Untersttzung von ICO-Men benutzen.
       Ausnahme: die Liste der untersttzten Grafikkarten.

       Der VESA-Treiber muá geladen werden, wenn 256-Farben-Mens er-
       stellt werden sollen. Dazu folgende Schritte:

       * 1. COPY [A/B]:\UNIVESA.EXE C:\DOS
       * 2. Editieren der Datei C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
       * 3. Einfgen der Startzeile: [LH] C:\DOS\UNIVESA.EXE
       * 4. Neu-Start des Rechners

       Falls die VESA-Erweiterung nicht geladen wurde, erscheint beim
       Laden von 256-Farben-Mens eine Meldung.


       ACHTUNG !!!
       -----------

       Dieser universelle VESA-Treiber muá nicht mit allen Grafikkarten
       zusammenarbeiten ! Falls dieser Treiber nicht funktioniert, es gibt
       noch andere UNI-VESA-Treiber. Schauen Sie aber auch auf den Disket-
       ten zu Ihrer Grafikkarte nach, ob sich dort ein VESA-Treiber spe-
       ziell fr Ihre Grafikkarte befindet.



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