acl wrote on 2021-12-03, 11:40:

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Hi,

I recently bought a nice little 2D graphic card : Trio64V22DX. I honestly bought it because of its nice looking, very very "Kitsch" box.
Besides that, it's a classic 2D card. Nothing special.

But i have two questions :

• Is the box matching ? I could not found a lot of online sources mentioning "Daytona 64" Trio64 cards. The manual mentions S3 Trio64 (but also SIS and CirrusLogic)
• Is there any hope of finding the software ? I tried VogonsDrivers, Online search and archive.org. Archive.org provides a CD image for "Daytona" drivers. But it seems that the original one mentioned by the manual must be a floppy.

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The box and manual seem a match but I do wonder if the card is too - commonly there would be a Daytona sticker on the card, often on the BIOS (Daytona was a branding used by Palit Microsystems on their video cards)

https://web.archive.org/web/19980215023758/ht … .tw/product.htm

If you want to try the Palit / Daytona drivers on the card anyway you can get them here

http://ftp.uma.es/Drivers/TVIDEO/S3/775/

I think I have a Daytona 64 box somewhere, I'll see if I can find it.

And for completeness here's the Daytona 3D box (S3 ViRGE):

Found it. Someone gave this to me a few years ago and it actually had an S3 Virge DX inside. Fairly certain the box was originally meant for a Trio64 of some kind.

Thank you for your answers.
Your boxes look really nice too !

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-12-05, 05:28:

If you want to try the Palit / Daytona drivers on the card anyway you can get them here
http://ftp.uma.es/Drivers/TVIDEO/S3/775/

I tried the card on two systems.

• Windows XP (i was hoping to use GPU-Z) (MSI KT6V / Athlon XP 3200+ / 1Gb DDR)
  • Correctly detected. Loads Microsoft provided driver
  • GPU-Z gives an instant BSOD and reboots the system. Great !
• Windows 98se (Asus CUBX-E / PIII 700 @931 / 256Mb SDR)
  • Correctly detected. Loads Microsoft provided driver
  • I installed the drivers from ftp.uma.es. Works too (but seems old)
  • SiSoftware Sandra report added as attachment. But nothing mentions Palit / Daytona

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-12-05, 05:28:

The box and manual seem a match but I do wonder if the card is too - commonly there would be a Daytona sticker on the card, often on the BIOS (Daytona was a branding used by Palit Microsystems on their video cards)

You may be right. Besides the sticker, the thing that convinced me is the memory size. On the photo, 2Mb as been "checked" on the box while the card reports as 1Mb in Windows.

At least the box looks good.
But the card. Well... 1Mb. For DOS maybe.