• VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) is a VESA standard, currently at version 3, that defines the interface that can be used by software to access compliant video...
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  • UniVBE (short for Universal VESA BIOS Extensions) is a software driver that allows DOS applications written to the VESA BIOS standard to run on almost any...
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    the computer's boot time. It also implements INT 10h interrupt and VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) for basic text and videomode output before a specific video...
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    Super VGA (category VESA)
    uptake of Super VGA cards, which motivated VESA to produce a unifying standard, the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE), first introduced in 1989, to provide...
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  • INT 10H (category BIOS)
    or INT 16 is shorthand for BIOS interrupt call 10hex, the 17th interrupt vector in an x86-based computer system. The BIOS typically sets up a real mode...
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    computing, BIOS (/ˈbaɪɒs, -oʊs/, BY-oss, -⁠ohss; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is a type of...
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    video bus (akin to the more recent Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)) VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE), used for enabling standard support for advanced video modes...
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  • management specifications. Subsequent revisions were included in future VESA BIOS Extensions. The standard defines how to signal the H-sync and V-sync pins in...
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  • for the virtual console (based on the standard modes defined by VESA BIOS extensions). Also the Linux kernel framebuffer driver contained mode-setting...
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    rate) for a computer's display controller by using VESA BIOS Extensions or UEFI Graphics extensions (on more modern computers). The display mode is set...
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  • system—especially game software). BIOS runs in the real address mode (Real Mode) of the x86 CPU, so programs that call BIOS either must also run in real mode...
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    offered by SVGA adapters. An attempt at creating a standard named VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) was made, but not all manufacturers used it. When the 386 was...
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  • extended BIOS in Atari TOS-based computers (since 1984/1985) EX-BIOS, non-standard BIOS extensions in the HP Vectra series of computers (since 1985) BIOS extension...
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    driver Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units Fastra II VESA BIOS Extensions von Eitzen, Chris (18 June 2012). "Free NVIDIA graphics driver reaches...
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    true-color modes. In the 1990s, most manufacturers adhered to the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE), used for enabling standard support for advanced video modes...
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  • VBE may refer to: VESA BIOS Extensions, a video board software standard .vbe, the filename extension for VBScript Vila das Belezas (São Paulo Metro), the...
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  • 1996-02 AT Attachment ATA/ATAPI-7 2005 ATX 2.3 2007-03 BIOS Boot Specification 1.01 1996-01 BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification (INT 13H) 3.0 1998-04-20...
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    games because these chips were quite slow and had limited and buggy VESA BIOS Extensions implementations. While the GUI accelerator was very capable, drivers...
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    Time", PC World, USA "Anniversary: Is Tetris Really 40 This Year?". Time Extension. June 24, 2024. Archived from the original on July 17, 2024. Retrieved...
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    OpenBIOS is used as the firmware. QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals: PCI bridge PCI VGA-compatible graphics card with VESA Bochs Extensions Two...
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  • display functions and software controlled interface. Beyond display modes, the VESA industry organization has defined several standards related to power management...
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  • device driver (vidstub.sys) to access the display directly using VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE), unlike other bootscreen changers which alter the boot screen...
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  • SNAP. SciTech SNAP Graphics version 2 also included VBETest/Lite - VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) Compliance Test version 8.00. It was later removed in SciTech...
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    any other cards that contain their own BIOS or other ROM are problematic, although video cards conforming to VESA Standards may be used for secondary monitors...
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    33 MHz. VLB: An extension of ISA, it is a 32-bit bus clocked at 33 MHz. Also referred to as VESA. PCI: Replaced the EISA, ISA, MCA and VESA buses from 1993...
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    IBM PC Series (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
    (SelectaBus) through a replaceable riser-card, offering the choice of either VESA Local Bus/ISA or PCI/ISA. Within the 300 series the following models appeared:...
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    monitor. Certain combinations of width and height are standardized (e.g. by VESA) and typically given a name and an initialism which is descriptive of its...
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    only the great technical challenge of crafting a BIOS that duplicated the function of the IBM BIOS exactly but did not infringe on copyrights. The two...
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    Architecture (EISA), was not very successful, however. Later buses such as VESA Local Bus and PCI were used instead, often along with ISA slots on the same...
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    servers and workstations. Consumer desktops often used the simpler, faster VESA Local Bus (VLB). Unfortunately prone to electrical and timing-based instability;...
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