Universal Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/2003 video driver, VESA/VBE based Windows-family driver. External links Options

[bearwindows]

Hi! My name is BEARWINDOWS. I'm a developer of 'Universal VESA/VBE Video Kernel-Mode Driver (for Windows 9x/NT x86 Architecture)'

For Windows NT "family" -

Latest official driver version released at: January, 14, 2009.
See CHANGELOG for details.
Latest site update at: February, 12, 2009.
In English: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbemp.htm Mirror #1
In Russian: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbempru.htm Mirror #1

For Windows 9x "family" -

Latest official driver version released at: October, 21, 2008.
See CHANGELOG for details.
Latest site update at: March, 1, 2009.
In English: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9x.htm Mirror #1
In Russian: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/vbe9xru.htm Mirror #1

[TheHive]

Welcome to the board BEARWINDOWS.
I think ive heard of this driver before. It was mentioned by jaclaz, I think.
Glad to have a developer on the board.

[psc]

Hi bearwindows!
Welcome in our community!

Maybe your project solves a big problem I have:

My PC has OnBoard Intel 82845GL and until now many trials to have more then 16 colors on the burned CD did not have success.

Let's see whether it is possible to put your project into a WinBuilder script!

Peter

[Nuno Brito]

Welcome bearwindows!

I've visited your page and read your overall work - very impressive..

Hope you keep visiting us - the idea of using an universal video driver seems a very promissing and effective solution for XP/2003 based boot disks, have you also tested under Vista?



Peter - thanks for voluntering and good luck scripting!

[bearwindows]

No. I didn't test it on Vista/7 & don't rewrite my driver for Vista/7 support.
I don't like Vista/7.
My MAINSTREAM OS LINE FOR DEVELOPING VBEMP IS NT3/NT4 systems.
XP's support is added by the way.

I have three main goals for developing VBEMP:
1) supporting *OLD* videocards on new systems (2K/XP)
2) supporting *NEW* videocards on old systems (NT3/NT4)
3) writing universal VBE-based light and simple video-driver.

BTW, my other projects are:

OS/2 Bootable Recovery CD: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/os2be.htm
Keeping up-to-date NT 3.1: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/winnt31x.htm
Keeping up-to-date NT 3.5: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/winnt35.htm
Keeping up-to-date NT 3.51 (+Windows NT 3.51 SuperPack): http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/winnt351.htm
Keeping up-to-date NT4: http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/winnt4.htm

[Sherpya]

nt3? uh

[was_jaclaz]

BEARWINDOWS,
hallo, happy you joined us .

If you think it fit, I can ask Nuno to open a sub-forum for your app here:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Projects-f57.html
together with the Winbuilder projects, winimize, tftp32 and Imdisk.

Have fun.

jaclaz

P.S.:

I think ive heard of this driver before. It was mentioned by jaclaz, I think.

Yes, WHO else?

The original post is here:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/I-found-a-...mine-t1697.html
At the time I mailed both Alexander Telyatnikov and BEARWINDOWS to express my appreciation for their great work, inviting them to join us, should they like to.

[Nuno Brito]

No. I didn't test it on Vista & don't rewrite my driver for Vista support.
I don't like Vista.
My MAINSTREAM OS LINE FOR DEVELOPING VBEMP IS NT3/NT4 systems.
XP's support is added by the way.

Well, I was also quite happy with XP on my work machine - Vista is a bit sluggier in resources but since you seem to enjoy learning more about OS's then you should quickly find how to tweak it in a way you like or perhaps show others the way to bring a more efficient set of customizations, who knows?

BTW, my other projects are:

CODE

OS/2 Bootable Recovery CD: http://www.geocities.com/bearwindows/os2be.htm
Keeping uptodate NT4: http://www.geocities.com/bearwindows/winnt4.htm
Keeping uptodate NT3 (+Windows NT 3.51 SuperPack): http://www.geocities.com/bearwindows/winnt351.htm

Good projects!

[psc]

No. I didn't test it on Vista & don't rewrite my driver for Vista support.
I don't like Vista.

I think I found a friend here!

Peter

[smiley]

I think I found a friend here!

Peter

me too!