First post, by retro games 100
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- l33t
Introduction
I am testing a Diamond Speedstar VGA ISA video card. It's got 1MB of RAM onboard. I notice that Vogons user DonutKing has got exactly the same card, and it features in his "386 DX build" Vogons thread, here.
1) Link to the Windows 3 driver package. Filename is DIAMOND_SPEEDSTAR_VGA_WIN_31_DRIVER.exe. Source: Diamond legacy driver webpage.
Notes
1) This package contains various things, including a Windows 3 driver. When you install it, you can choose between the Speedstar driver (max resolution choice of 1024x768x16), and something called a Turbo driver. The Turbo driver gives you the extra choice of 1024x768x256 colours. I wonder if this is because the card has extra RAM added to the RAM sockets? I wonder why they call it a turbo driver? Forgive my ignorance, but I think this card has no 2D acceleration. If that is correct, then there's nothing "turbo" about this Windows driver. I ran WinTune 2.0 for Windows 3, and it was terribly slow.
Questions
1) Does any have the jumper specification for this card? I found one here, on the stason org website, but it doesn't exactly match the card I have. This stason webpage talks about jumper JP7 being on or off, yet on my card, JP7 is a 3 pin jumper, with 2 possible values. Also, the stason page shows the DAC socket as being a different size to my card, and this page also refers to the card as "super VGA".
The card
I'm might retake this picture tomorrow morning. I can probably make it look a bit sharper.