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- V E S A T E S T
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- Copyright (c) 1994 by Oliver Fromme -- All Rights Reserved
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- Autor: Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
- Internet email: fromme@rz.tu-clausthal.de
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- Licence & Disclaimer:
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- This program is freeware, i.e. you may use, copy and distribute it freely, as
- long as no money is charged for it. Do not modify, disassemble, reengineer,
- or misuse this program. Always distribute this documentation along with the
- program.
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- If you want to bundle it with any commercial software, you'll need the
- explicit permission of the author, Oliver Fromme.
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- You are using this program on your own risk. The author is not liable for
- any damage or loss which may result directly or indirectly from the use of
- this program.
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- Purpose of VESATEST:
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- VESATEST checks the existence of an VBE (VESA BIOS Extension), either built
- into the VGA BIOS ROM, or installed as a TSR driver. If an VBE is detected,
- several details are displayed about each mode which is supported by the VBE.
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- Meaning of the table entries:
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- Mode: the mode number (hexadecimal)
- Type: "gfx" for graphics modes, "txt" for text modes
- Width: horizontal resolution in Pixels (gfx) or characters (txt)
- Height: vertical resolution in Pixels (gfx) or characters (txt)
- Colors: number of colors, 32K/64K = hicolor, 16M = truecolor
- Bpp: bits per pixel
- Bank: size of memory banks (Kb), usually 64 Kb
- Bpl: bytes per line
- Red: size and location of the red component (bits)
- Green: ditto, green component
- Blau: ditto, blue component
- Resvd.: ditto, reserved component
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- Command line options:
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- /T display text modes only
- /G display graphics modes only
- /? display a short help text
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