- uploaded new VGABIOS with VBE support

bochs/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-README

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+Plex86/Bochs VGABios
+--------------------
+
+The goal of this project is to have a LGPL'd Video Bios in plex86
+and bochs.
+This VGA Bios is very specific to the emulated VGA card.
+It is NOT meant to drive a physical vga card.
+
+
+Install
+-------
+To compile the VGA Bios you will need :
+- gcc
+- bcc
+- as86
+- ld86
+
+Untar the archive, and type make. You should get a "vgabios.bin" file.
+Alternatively, you can use the binary file "vgabios-XXX.bin", i have
+compiled for you.
+
+Edit your plex86/bochs conf file, and modify the load-rom command in the
+VGA BIOS section, to point to the new vgabios.bin file.
+
+
+Debugging
+---------
+You can get a very basic debugging system: messages printed by the vgabios.
+You have to register the "unmapped" device driver in plex86 or bochs, and make
+sure it grabs port 0xfff0.
+
+Comment the #undef DEBUG at the beginning of vgabios.c. 
+You can then use the "printf" function in the bios. 
+
+
+Testing
+-------
+Look at the "testvga.c" file in the archive. This is a minimal Turbo C 2.0 
+source file that calls a few int10 functions. Feel free to modify it to suit 
+your needs.
+The VGA Bios in its current version has been very little tested.
+
+
+Copyright and License
+---------------------
+This program has been written by Christophe Bothamy
+It is protected by the GNU Lesser Public License, which you should
+have received a copy of along with this package. 
+
+
+Reverse Engineering
+-------------------
+The VGA Bios has been written without reverse-engineering any existing Bios.
+
+
+Acknowledgment
+--------------
+The source code contains code ripped from rombios.c of plex86, written
+by Kevin Lawton <kevin2001@yahoo.com>
+
+The source code contains fonts from fntcol16.zip (c) by Joseph Gil avalable at :
+ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/screen/fntcol16.zip
+These fonts are public domain
+
+The source code is based on information taken from :
+- Kevin Lawton's vga card emulation for bochs/plex86
+- Ralf Brown's interrupts list avalaible at 
+  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/ralf/pub/WWW/files.html
+- Finn Thogersons' VGADOC4b available at http://home.worldonline.dk/~finth/
+- Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
+- Francois Gervais' book "programmation des cartes graphiques cga-ega-vga" 
+  edited by sybex
+- DOSEMU 1.0.1 source code for several tables values and formulas
+
+
+Feedback
+--------
+Please report any bugs, comments, patches for this VGA Bios to cbothamy@free.fr
+
+You can find the latest release at : http://cbothamy.free.fr/projects/vgabios/
+
+For any information on plex86, visit the website http://www.plex86.org/
+For any information on bochs, visit the website http://bochs.sourceforge.net/