Download the archive and extract SVGAPTCH.EXE into some known location.The above notwithstanding, there is a hacky partial solution: Japheth’s SVGAPatch. The same project also developed a VBE driver for earlier versions of Windows NT. In Windows 95, the driver architecture was simplified: drivers could re-use generic drawing routines from the DIB engine, which is (presumably) what enabled the development of a VBE driver for Windows 9x from the VBEMP project. This in turn means that one should not expect it to be easy to create such a driver from scratch it certainly wouldn’t be a weekend project. According to a post on OS/2 Museum, the display driver architecture of Windows 3.x was pretty baroque: the drivers were required to implement not only mode switching and transferring pixel buffers to the screen but also many drawing operations as well. Microsoft started bundling a VBE driver with the operating system only as late as with Windows XP, by which time the Windows 3.x (and 9x) driver architecture was long obsolete. It seems unlikely that a fully-functional VBE driver for Windows 3.x exists.
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