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First post, by Pieszka

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Hey,

I'm writing here because I'm out of ideas and I'm hoping someone might have a solution to my problem. Well, I recently got my hands on a film editing station - AVID Newscutter DV. It is running Windows NT 4, unfortunately the disk died and I was forced to reinstall. I managed to complete most of the drivers needed to make it work except for one - the most important one. This computer is equipped with a Truevision TARGA 2000DV capture card. And this is where that 'DV' suffix comes into play. It's probably some version specifically made for AVID. There were two drivers available online - version 1.71 from 1996 and version 2.2 from 1997, however both are for a card without 'DV' in the name and do not work with mine. I've been trying to recover data from a corrupted disk and have found fragments of the correct drivers - it turns out that the ones I'm interested in are version 1.1 but from 1998. And they are created specifically for TARGA 2000DV. Would anyone happen to have the correct drivers on hand for this card? I would be very interested.

I only have the 1.71 and 2.2 drivers for the 2000 version (without the "DV" in the name) and the 1000 version, so I could share them (as I've seen that they can't be found on the modern internet). Thank you in advance.

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Reply 1 of 1, by Pieszka

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I still haven't found the drivers I need. I received a reply from Avid that they no longer store them. Unfortunately but this may mean that I won't be able to run this station.

I searched the internet and found several versions of the drivers, but none of them work - they don't detect Avid's video I/O module. Nevertheless, I decided to upload them to the Internet Archive so that future people don't have to bother looking for them. Here are the links:

TARGA 2000 Series Version 1.41:
https://archive.org/details/targa-2000-drivers-v141

TARGA 2000 Series Version 1.71:
https://archive.org/details/targa2000v171

TARGA 1000/2000 Series Version 2.2:
https://archive.org/details/targa-1000-2000-2.2

TARGA 2000 Series Version 3.1:
https://archive.org/details/targa-2000-drivers-v31

TARGA 2000 Series 3D Extension Version 3.1:
https://archive.org/details/targa-2000-3d-extension

Nevertheless, if anyone has the original Avid disc with drivers and software (or the drivers themselves) I would ask to post and upload somewhere so that they are available to others.