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- VESA Mode Identifier
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- This utility program is copyright Criterion Software Limited 1995.
- You may not disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer this
- program.
-
- This program is provided as is with no warranties of any
- kind. Criterion Software will not, under any circumstances, be liable for
- any lost revenue or other damages arising from the use of this
- program.
-
- RenderWare is a trademark of Canon Inc.
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- The purpose of this tool is to display the video modes that the VESA bios
- has available. A sub set of these modes are available to RenderWare.
-
- 1) Renderware can only work with 8,15 and 16 bit modes
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- 2) Renderware can only work with standard VESA resolutions (320x200),
- (640x400),(640x480),(800x600),(1024x768) and (1280x1024).
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- 3) The mode must be 'available' that is the correct monitor is attached and
- the video card has enough memory to support the mode.
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- 4) The bios must give the VESA standard video mode number.
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- The format of the output is
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- VESA video mode in hex.
- Resolution Width
- Resolution Height
- Resolution Depth
- Available/Not available (is the mode accessable on the current setup)
- Text/Graphics Mode
- Red:Green:Blue component bit width.
- Red-Green-Blue position of components within display word.
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- Note that the last two values will not be displayed on older versions of
- the VESA bios (1.0). Also the last two values only have meaning in modes with
- depths greater than 8 bits (They will appear as 0 for 8 and 4 bit modes).
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