I noticed that Intel 82706 card too. I never realized until now that "Hercules" was a company. I thought it was just the name of an MDA card, that included some kind of monochrome graphics mode. So when I saw that card had a Hercules logo on it, I assumed it had mistakenly been labeled a VGA card. …

I didn't realize this up until now, but you can sort cards on old.vgamuseum.info by year and type. There are three VGA chipsets listed as being released in 1987: Intel Kama sx094 Cirrus Logic GD-410/420 (sold by Video Seven as the VGA Vega) Tseng ET3000AX The Tseng card is actually better than the …

Looks like the Oak OTI-037 doesn't really add anything, other than an 800x600 16 color mode, and 132 column text. There are a few programming guides documenting it's quirks. More importantly it's pretty common on eBay. I'm going to buy one of them, thanks. Datasheet: http://old.vgamuseum.info/images …

I reworded my previous post. I want it to run reasonably well on a 386 DX 33mhz, specifically. That's what I arbitrarily consider to be a "real DOS machine", that's why I bought the hardware. There are things like delays that I need to generate between register writes, doubt this would cause any …

A program i'm writing targets a 386, vga card, and Adlib soundcard. I have the two other things, just need a classic VGA card. If I claim to target "VGA", I want to make sure that it works on real VGA hardware (however unlikely it is that a user may have it)

I'm looking for any VGA card that supports video mode 13 (320*200 256 colors), but predates the VESA spec. Anyone know of any chip numbers I can search for on eBay, or specific card models. I think the first ATI VGA Wonder is one such card, but it's rare. I'm guessing all of these cards are pretty …

I'm looking for a gamepad for MS-DOS gaming on an old pentium MMX laptop that runs win98. I don't really play a lot of DOS games, but i'm currently writing one. I'm looking for an alternative to keyboard input for technical reasons. The laptop only has a 9-pin serial and a parallel port, no game …

Thanks, I kinda wish I would of checked back before writing a quick and dirty timing procedure using the RTC. I can just pass it a number of seconds to delay. I'll still make some use of your script, i'm sure.

Yeah, I thought of that, but sometimes I do want to be able to gradually speed up and slow down. Technically I could have 2 different copies of DOSBox configured differently... Isn't there a way to load a different config file with a command? Maybe I could just wrap two different config files in a …

I'm using DOSBox Enhanced Community Edition r4052 I know how to increase/decrease the cycle rate (ctrl+F11/F12) I know that you can adjust the granularity of the increase/decrease rate via the configuration file. What I'm looking to do is switch with just a single hotkey from 20,000 cycles down to …

Thanks for the advise everyone. I payed $15 for a 512k trident 8900D, which I ordered from outside the U.S. If it ever shows up, I will post an update. Although, more important at the moment is a floppy or IDE controller, the built in floppy drive is broken and I need to reinstall DOS.

7600 gs is the best after taking into account the rarity and price of the faster cards. (The best AGP cards are usually stupidly expensive.) I remember that's what I used to use (before upgrading to the 4670) with my dual overclocked Tualatin before I got bored with and gave it away. I was able to …

I think there's enough space. Any card that isn't longer than a 16 bit ISA slot, or taller than the bracket should fit fine. I think i'm gonna go with a Trident 8900D. It's the cheapest card I could find that definitely supports 640x480 with 256 colors.

Okay cool. I wasn't sure if my BIOS would support it, but I guess there's no way that anyone else would know that unless they owned and tested my particular computer. (Which is a rare laptop that I ordered from Ukraine, so that's doubtful) Do you know of a common ISA svga card? Because whenever I …

Not necessarily for gaming, can it be done in general? My 286 has a meg of ram runs DOS 5,0 and has a 16 bit ISA slot. I just wanted to see how fast I could push pixels on my new 286. i've done it in DOSBox with my test program that I wrote in assembly which just cycles through fullscreen colors …