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 Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <199807051349 DOT OAA17587 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.168.123.95 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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. -- Andrew Gillett http://argnet.fatal-design.com/ ICQ: 12142937