386SX wrote:

Stojke wrote:

OAK are known as Video Decelerators.

Ah ah but I have to admit I admire them to be my very first computer video card (probably the same one I found now, but this one has a dual bios and also a sort of serial port near the vga one.

It's not a serial port, it's a CGA/EGA/MDA (TTL) monitor port. I'm sure your card has some sort of switches, and by this switches, you can adjust your card as a CGA or EGA card. your card is probably this one (don't care about the brand, just check the layout):

https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/v/C-D/50011.htm

I still have the same card, and it was my first display card ever in my first PC from 1992.

tayyare wrote:

It's not a serial port, it's a CGA/EGA/MDA (TTL) monitor port. I'm sure your card has some sort of switches, and by this switche […]
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386SX wrote:

Stojke wrote:

OAK are known as Video Decelerators.

Ah ah but I have to admit I admire them to be my very first computer video card (probably the same one I found now, but this one has a dual bios and also a sort of serial port near the vga one.

It's not a serial port, it's a CGA/EGA/MDA (TTL) monitor port. I'm sure your card has some sort of switches, and by this switches, you can adjust your card as a CGA or EGA card. your card is probably this one (don't care about the brand, just check the layout):

https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/v/C-D/50011.htm

I still have the same card, and it was my first display card ever in my first PC from 1992.

Thank, I didn't know that switch and yes it's there in the card. I remembered that the card was automatically switching at software request.

By the way I didn't think that ATi cards were not as fast as we later knew for the (PCI maybe not but) AGP cards. I see that there're many ISA cards even 8 bit built by ATi and I was actually tempted to buy one.

386SX wrote:

By the way I didn't think that ATi cards were not as fast as we later knew for the (PCI maybe not but) AGP cards. I see that there're many ISA cards even 8 bit built by ATi and I was actually tempted to buy one.

ATi's first decent videocard was the Radeon 8500. Before that it was all pretty bad 😀
Even back in the CGA clone era, ATi's cards were actually slower than the original IBMs, which didn't exactly break any speed records 😀
I have a clone with an ATi Small Wonder card, and it was actually too slow to run a CGA demo written for the original IBM PC 5150: https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/cgad … y-codeblasters/

Well if we have to measure when they became "faster" everywhere I would agree with the Radeon 8500 chipset but I cannot forget previous solutions like the Rage Fury Maxx (:D) and certainly the first original Radeon.

I agree with the WD90C31.
See also http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks
WD90C30 and WD90C11 seem to be just as good, I suppose they are not as good for Windows (lacking acceleration).
There are some other ISA cards that are also very similar.
Trident 9000 is definitely not good.