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UniVBE_/Pro 5.0
User's Guide
SciTech Software USA, 97 E. St. James #44
San Jose, CA 95112 United States of America
SciTech Software Australia, Unit 5, 106 Southbank Boulevard
South Melbourne Victoria Australia 3205
COPYRIGHT
UniVBE_/Pro is copyright 1993-1994 SciTech Software. All Rights
Reserved. The product names UniVBE/Lite, UniVBE/Pro, UniCENTER and
UniPOWER are copyrighted by SciTech Software.
UniVBE/Pro is not copy protected, but it is copyrighted. As a
licensee of UniVBE/Pro, you may only use this product on only one
computer at a time. You may install the product on multiple computers
as long as there is no possibility of the product being used at the
same time on different computers. You may make backup copies for your
personal archival use only. The documentation included with this
software is copyrighted to SciTech Software, and may not, in whole or
in part, be copied, photocopied, reproduced or translated without
prior written permission from SciTech Software.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
PRODUCT IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PRODUCT PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME
THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT WILL SCITECH SOFTWARE, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY HAVE
REDISTRIBUTED THE PRODUCT AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PRODUCT
(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE
OF THE PRODUCT TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH
HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
Produced in Australia, and printed in the United States of America.
UniVBE/Pro was written with Borland C++ and Borland Turbo Assembler,
and this manual was produced using Microsoft Word for Windows.
All brand and product names mentioned in this documentation are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Contents
Introduction .............................................2
What is it? .........................................2
Why use it? .........................................3
Installation .............................................5
Hardware requirements ...............................5
Automated Installation ..............................5
Command line options ................................6
-s .............................................6
-c .............................................6
-m .............................................7
-d .............................................7
-g .............................................7
-u .............................................7
-b .............................................8
-l .............................................8
-i .............................................8
-p .............................................8
-x .............................................8
386 Memory Managers .................................8
Whats the .INI file for? ............................9
Upgrading your video card ...........................10
Video modes supported by UniVBE .....................10
Testing UniVBE ...........................................12
UniPOWER .................................................13
Problems with the Standby State .....................13
What do the DPMS states mean anyway? ................13
UniCENTER ................................................15
Video cards tested with UniVBE ...........................16
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Introduction
What is it?
The Universal VESA VBE (or UniVBE_ for short) is a small Terminate
and Stay Resident (TSR) program that extends the Video BIOS of
SuperVGA video cards to make them compatible with the Video
Electronics Standards Association (VESA) recommended Video BIOS
Extensions (VBE). Many new programs like Microsoft Flight Simulator
5 rely on a fully functioning VBE in order to obtain the highest
performance possible. UniVBE provides the latest VBE 1.2 standard so
you can be sure these programs will not only work correctly, but will
run as fast as possible on your system. UniVBE comes in two flavours,
the Shareware or unregistered trial version (UniVBE/Shareware) and
the full professional version (UniVBE/Pro). The professional version
also includes a high performance 32 bit protected mode interface
based on the soon to be released VBE 2.0 standard, and programs
written to take advantage of this can run with blinding speed
compared to normal VESA VBE implementations. The shareware version is
not a cut down version, but a full featured trial version of
UniVBE/Pro. You have 21 days after installing UniVBE to try out all
of its features, before you are required to register your copy with
SciTech Software (if you received a Bundle version of UniVBE/Lite or
UniVBE/Pro with some application software, you do not need to
register UniVBE).
Apart from making your programs run faster and better, UniVBE/Pro can
also save you money and help the environment at the same time!
UniVBE/Pro fully supports the new VESA VBE/PM and DPMS standards for
Energy Star compliance, and comes with the UniPOWER_ power management
screen savers. If you have one of the new Energy Star compliant video
monitor that supports the Display Power Management Standard (DPMS),
you can install the UniPOWER DOS and Windows screensaver programs to
power down the monitor when not in use. This allows your monitor to
shut down and use less than 5 watts of power while you are having a
coffee break or otherwise engaged!
And lastly, to help you configure your video card for optimum results
with your monitor, UniVBE/Pro comes with the UniCENTER_ utility
program, that allows you to adjust the centering and sizing for all
video modes supported by UniVBE/Pro. Fantastic for getting those
video modes to look just right!
Note that if you received a bundle version of UniVBE/Lite or
UniVBE/Pro with some application software, the UniCENTER and UniPOWER
utility programs will not have been included. You will need to
purchase the full registered version of UniVBE/Pro from SciTech
Software in order to obtain these utilities.
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Why use it?
You may already have a vendor supplied VESA VBE TSR program for your
video card, or you video card may have VESA VBE compliance built into
the BIOS, so why would you