This is soooo cool: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence theVBEin the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.
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- The above github repository mentions [Wayback/Archive] VESA patch (Windows 3.1x) – Win3x.Org which regrettably has their downloads behind a logon wall, and the Wayback Machine does not have that particular
svgapatch.zipproperly archived.- Some quick searches found back [Wayback/Archive] Japheth’s Site with the
svgapatch.zipdownloadable from [Wayback/Archive] www.japheth.de/dwnload1.html at Wayback svgaptch.zip with the file being web.archive.org/web/20250106100041/https://www.japheth.de/Download/Win16/svgaptch.zip.
- Some quick searches found back [Wayback/Archive] Japheth’s Site with the
- [Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Calmira 4.x alternative Windows 3.1 shell
It reminds me of other endevours to keep retro-software easy to use: Read the rest of this entry »
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