Advance Projects - AdvanceCAB History

The WIP version is available in CVS.

History For AdvanceCAB

Upgraded at the SVGALIB 1.9.17 library with all the patches from AdvanceMAME 0.71.0.

Fixed the abort bug for the SVGALIB Rage 128/Radeon video boards and probably others.

The VIDEOW utility now correctly detects the current bytes per scanline.
Updated the Windows SVGAWIN.SYS driver to the 1.1 version.
Fixed a slowdown bug on the SVGALIB video board detection.
Fixed a bug on the DOS/Windows SVGALIB Radeon driver. It should help with the video modes at lower frequency generally used in Arcade Monitors and TVs.
Minor changes at the docs.
Better error reporting on the DOS/Windows SVGALIB drivers.
The VIDEOW utility now uses the `device_video' to force a specific video driver.

Added the VIDEOWIN utility. It's able to set an arbitrary modeline in Windows NT/2000/XP. It supports all the most recent boards.

Added the VBE32 utility. It's a new 32 bit VBE BIOS which supports all the new video boards.

Recompiled the `advv' utility with lower optimizations and for the 386 processor.

The same modelines changes of AdvanceMAME 0.53.
Added support for the Voodoo5 board.
Added the -r option at the `video' utility to reset the video board using the reset BIOS function.

Corrected the default `vgaline' modes in the file standard.cfg, extended.cfg and medium.cfg.
Solved some problems on the vga/vbe/video utilities.
The vbe utility is now tested in Windows 98 SE with a S3 board.

The `video' utility now clear the screen before loading a PCX image.
The modeline utility can now generate an arbitrary mode from the command line. Example "modeline /svga60 384x224".

Added the `contrib/bootlogo' utility by Robert Palmqvist.
Cursor shape now setup correctly by the `vga' utility.
Solved the command line problems loading the utilities in the config.sys. Now all the options are case insensitive.
Added the new utility `modeline'. All the `mv' modelines are now computed with this utility.

AdvanceVBE/VGA now named AdvanceCAB.
Other utilities `portio' and `off' moved to AdvanceCAB.
Added support for Trident cards using the new video driver of VSyncMAME written by Saka. Use the "vbeline_driver=vbe3" option to revert to the old behavior.
Some registers wasting corrected in the `vga' and `vbe' utility.
Corrected the ModeX change in the `vga' utility.
WARNING! Changed the command line options. Now if you call these utility without options a short help screen is printed. You must update all the batch files!
Added `sys' support at the utilities `vga' and `portio'. You can load them directly in the `config.sys' as a `device'. These version can't be unloaded.
Added in the `vga' utility an option to disable the video output of other programs.
Added a new utility `video' to enable and disable the hardware video output, load images, or set an arbitrary video mode.

Changed the mode number of the mode 1024x768 16 bit to follow the VESA 1.2 standard.

Saved all the 32 bit registers in the int 10h call (this should solve some problems).
Added a private stack (this should solve A LOT of problems).
Increased the max number of modelines to 64.
Added the `vga' utility (preliminary).
Added support for the vga text mode 01h (40x25), this may be used as default text mode for Arcade 25 kHz monitors.