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 00:32:08 +0100 Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service Message-ID: References: <199807050025 DOT BAA30100 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.168.123.95 Lines: 20 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk [This followup was posted to comp.os.msdos.djgpp and a copy was sent to the cited author.] In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, article <199807050025 DOT BAA30100 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 0:17, Andrew R. Gillett wrote: > > > What video driver is better than VESA 2 (other than VBE/AF, perhaps)? > > Maybe you're talking about the standard specific card drivers, but I've > > found them to be no faster, and often less reliable. > > They're faster than VESA 1 -- isn't that the point? Drawing the pixels onto the screen manually with a pencil is faster than VESA 1. -- Andrew Gillett http://argnet.fatal-design.com/ ICQ: 12142937