| Laptop Dell D610 with ATI Radeon X300 chip. Have put two partitions on it. Dos 6.2 on C: and Win XP on D:. Had to do this this as the old ROBOCAD needs to see the parallel port free for a physical dongle. If run in windows it cant see it. This configuration works O.K, but with drawbacks - 1/ low res not ideal. 2/ Need to convert old files created by this old CAD to DXF files which can be read by more modern CAD programs. The old ROBOCAD has this function, but when DXF file is read by the newer ones, the lines are all over the place. I believe this is because of using the low res. If I select any higher res selection from the list provided during installation of the old CAD, the laptop simply locks up when the program is run. Thanks for looking at it for me. Just want a driver for this chip which I can put on a floppy 3.5, then I can re-install and select 'Third Party Driver' in this list. This is all for an old friend (70+), who does not want to have to learn a new CAD system from scratch.Ta. |
In DOS, if you want graphics above the VGA-modes, you need the VESA BIOS EXTENSIONS (VBE). Often cards only support a limited subset of VESA modes and there are different versions of the VESA standard (1.2, 2.0, 3.0).
You can gain full VESA support if you have a card specific VESA driver.
DOS VESA DRIVERS FOR MAC DOWNLOAD - Back to Desktop Forum 5 total posts Page 1 of 1. IIRC it's directX, and rather cheap. I have not tested any other ATI graphics hardware used on Macintosh computers. The game installs and runs fine under the new DOSBox version.But you have to be careful about the following: When you install the game you let the default graphic machine 'svga_s3'.But when you start the game with it will freeze just at the beginning.You have to edit the DOSBox config file and change the graphic mode to 'vesa_oldvbe'.
FreeBE/AF
FreeBE/AF is a free software project to support full VESA and VBE/AF (2D VESA graphics acceleration) on a number of cards.
It contains drivers for ATI, Avance Logic, Cirrus, Matrox, Nvidia, Paradise, S3, Trident, Tseng, V7.
FreeBE/AF homepage
UNIVBE
There was a freeware tool called UNIVESA and later UNIVBE that gave VESA support to a set of graphics hardware. It was later part of the shareware Scitech Display Doctor, which is no longer developed.
Download of Scitech Display Doctor
Old freeware UNIVBE
ATI
ATI provided 64vbe for some legacy cards like mach64 and rage128. They no longer provide it for download, latest version is v2.21.
64vbe v2.21
FTP-mirror with 64vbe
Matrox
There is a driver written from Carsten Sorensen for the G100, G200 and G400-chip. It's called Gx00VBE and works very well.
Gx00VBE homepage
Other/Untestet
Vesa Driver For Xp
SiSVBE v0.83 (4K)
Trident VESA (8K)
Collection
Collection of VESA-Drivers
I found this one while searching for several VESA-drivers. It contains several drivers for older cards. Try it if you don't find any other help. Also contains the last free Version of UNIVBE.
Contains drivers for: AHEAD, APPIAN, ATI, BOCA, CIRRUS, COMPAQ, C_AND_T, DIAMOND, EVEREX, GENOA, HEADLAND, HERCULES, IBM, IRIS, OAK, ORCHID, PARADISE, PERFECTV, SIGMA, SPIDER, STB, TECMAR, TI_PORT, TRIDENT, TSENG, UNIVESA, VIDEO7, WESTERN
Tools
Dos Vesa Driver For Mac
Vesa Driver Free Download
VINFO will display your gfx board's VBE version and all supported videomodes.
It's written by StyX/HeadcrasH.
Download VINFO