From:	a DOT gillett AT virgin DOT net (Andrew R. Gillett)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro graphics driver detection
Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 1998 00:33:52 +0100
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, article <199807051349 DOT OAA17587 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>, 
George Foot (george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
> On  5 Jul 98 at 1:50, Oliver Batchelor wrote:
> 
> > > drivers, yes.  I don't know what VESA 3 is, but Allegro supports that
> > > too. 
> > 
> > It only supports vesa 2.0 and below.  
> 
> WIPs support VBE 3.0.  From Allegro's ChangeLog:
> 
> : =================================================
> : ============ Changes from 3.0 to WIP ============
> : =================================================
> : [...]
> :    Added VBE 3.0 support, including new triple buffering routines.

I don't use WIPs. And I have never seen any program that actually uses 
VESA 3 other than Display Doctor itself. When Allegro 3.1 or whatever is 
released, I will start using VESA 3.

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Andrew Gillett
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