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- ------------------------- S3 Speed Up Version 3.10 -------------------------
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- This is the documentation for S3 Speed Up. S3 Speed Up is
- Copyright (c) 1994,96 Dietmar Meschede. All rights reserved.
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- Contents
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- 1. Overview
- 2. Installation
- 3. Speed up
- 4. The S3 Speed Up package
- 5. Copyright, legal disclaimer and terms of use
- 6. The author
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- 1. Overview
- -----------
-
- S3 Speed Up is a TSR program, which can speed up most banked VESA
- modes (no text or 4 bits/pixel modes) and VGA mode 13h (320x200x256)
- on S3 graphics cards.
-
- S3 Speed Up requires S3 VBE/Core 2.0 (version 3.10 or higher).
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- 2. Installation
- ---------------
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- You must install S3 VBE/Core 2.0 (version 3.10 or higher) in memory
- before installing S3 Speed Up.
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- Simply type "S3SPDUP /LOAD" to install S3 Speed Up in memory.
-
- Type "S3SPDUP VESA+" to install S3 Speed Up in memory and activate
- banked VESA modes speed up.
-
- For savety reasons S3 Speed Up is disabled at Windows(tm) start up and
- shut down. If you want to use S3 Speed Up under Windows(tm), you must
- activate S3 Speed Up in each DOS box.
-
- "S3SPDUP /?" shows a help screen.
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- 3. Speed up
- -----------
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- S3 Speed Up can speed up most banked VESA modes (no text or
- 4 bits/pixel modes) and VGA mode 13h (320x200x256).
-
- To speed up these modes S3 Speed Up must temporary change the
- PCI base address, which may cause problems!
-
- E.g. programs using the S3d(tm) engine (native S3 ViRGE programs)
- may or may not run, if banked VESA modes speed up is enabled.
-
- The speed up of VGA mode 13h is not 'Mode X' compatible. This means
- that some programs (e.g. DOOM) will not work when the VGA mode 13h
- speed up is enabled.
-
- Only use VGA mode 13h speed up, if you are familiar with 'Mode X'!
-
- Programs using VESA VBE/Core 2.0 linear frame buffer modes
- (e.g. QUAKE) will not profit from banked VESA modes speed up.
-
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- 4. The S3 Speed Up package
- --------------------------
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- The S3 Speed Up package consists of the following 4 files:
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- FILE_ID.DIZ Short description.
- S3SPDUP.EXE S3 Speed Up.
- S3SPDUP.TXT Documentation for S3 Speed Up.
- HISTORY.TXT History of S3 Speed Up.
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- 5. Copyright, legal disclaimer and terms of use
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- S3 Speed Up is Copyright (c) 1994,96 Dietmar Meschede.
- All rights reserved.
-
- The author (Dietmar Meschede) excludes any warranties with respect to
- S3 Speed Up. The author shall have no liability for damages arising
- out of or resulting from the use or misuse of S3 Speed Up.
-
- All trademarks used in this documentation are property of their respective
- owners.
-
- This package is Freeware. You may use, copy and distribute this
- package, if you don't modify the files in this package in any way
- and only distribute the original package with all files included.
-
-
- 6. The author
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-
- Dietmar Meschede
-
- Fuerstenberger Str. 50
- D-49479 Ibbenbueren
-
- E-Mail: mesched@math.uni-muenster.de
- WWW: http://wwwmath.uni-muenster.de/~mesched
- FTP: ftp://ftp.uni-muenster.de/pub/msdos/meschede
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