VESA graphics and my xp computer!

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i have an old vesa graphics game that i'm addicted to but
my xp computer won't play it. it'll try but it'll play all
garbled and mixed up. how do i make vesa graphics work on
an xp machine?

please respond to my e-mail address cause i imagine i'll
never find a way back to this board again.
 
Ah the irritating curse of lack of VESA pass-thru. I know it
oh so well. However there is a workaround if the game supports
VESA 1 as a fallback mode.

What you do is get an utility called NOLFB (NO Linear Frame
Buffer). It's a windows utility that will force DOS games
that use VESA 2 modes to fallback to VESA 1 access. Put the
NOLFB.COM file in a handy location (I place all my DOS games
into a "DOS" directory of which they all branch off from). Then
create custom batch files for each VESA using DOS program which
you load NOLFB first, then the game. With VDMSound and VDMSLaunch,
it's real easy, create the VDMSound profile for the batch file
rather than the game EXE directly.

NOLFB is created by Ken Silverman (guy who wrote the Build engine)
and it's meant to allow games like Duke Nukem 3D to work under
XP in VESA video modes.
 
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