It allow to set an arbitrary video mode list with the favourite modes which work best with your video hardware without any restrictions in size and frequencies.
With this utility you can play all the DOS games that use the standard VESA VBE services with your PC Monitor, TV and Arcade Monitor.
At the startup the configuration file `vbe.rc', created with the utility `vbev', is read and all the modelines present are activated. The format of this configuration file is specified in the document `advv.txt'.
These are some example rc files:
ntsc.rc | NTSC TV. | |
pal.rc | PAL TV. | |
standard.rc | Arcade Standard Resolution (15 kHz). | |
medium.rc | Arcade Medium Resolution (25 kHz). | |
extended.rc | Arcade Extended Resolution (16.5 kHz). | |
pcvga.rc | VGA PC Monitor. | |
pcsvga60.rc | SVGA PC Multisync Monitor. |
All the modelines present in the configuration files are used to create the list of available VBE mode. For every modeline five VBE modes with 8, 15, 16, 24, 32 bits are added.
/l |
Load in memory the utility |
/c CONFIG |
Use an arbitary configuration file |
Others applications may get in trouble if the list of avaliable VBE modes contains duplicate resolutions or is too big. Add only the best modelines and avoid duplicates.
vbe32 /l |
Load it with an arbitrary configuration file:
vbe32 /l /c c:\cab\myconf.rc |