SciTech Software, Inc. was a privately held software company based in

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. Founded by

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in 1996, SciTech Software developed many popular

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device driver programs for the PC, ranging from UniVESA (later renamed to

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) to SciTech Display Doctor and

SciTech SNAP SciTech SNAP (System Neutral Access Protocol) is an operating system portable, dynamically loadable, native-size 32-bit/64-bit device driver architecture. SciTech SNAP defines the architecture for loading an operating system neutral binary device ...

Graphics and SciTech SNAP Audio. It was purchased by Alt Richmond in 2008. Later in 2020, Alt Richmond was dissolved.

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