I recently aquired this cardwith a pile of other odd early '80s graphic cards , I'm trying to ID it without opening the box, I know it might be just an S3 Savage but has somethig weird going on, I can't find any reference of a Jetway s3 Wonder 4000 around .
Any idea?
emuboy wrote on 2023-04-19, 09:38:I know it might be just an S3 Savage
It is, but with a TV-tuner.
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emuboy wrote on 2023-04-19, 09:38:...I can't find any reference of a Jetway s3 Wonder 4000 around .
Yep it exists
https://www.ixbt.com/video/savage4-roundup.html
https://web.archive.org/web/19990220174406fw_ … /jwb/index.html
oh, amazing, but I don't understand, it says it has Tv Out, s-video? but the picture on thw website doesn't show any?
There are many small differences like presence of tv-out or not between the revisions of a card. With companies like jetway you can't even be sure that the box describes accurately the card, or is a generic one. In other words unless you open it you can't really know if it has a tv-out, although chances are it has.
I can't imagine who thought was a good idea to leave the box so generic, you put this on a shelf and no one can tell what's inside....
Also the box says it's AGP 2x, the savage4 is AGP 4x?
It was very common for cheaper brands and low-end introductory products. It's not even a very bad case.
emuboy wrote on 2023-04-19, 10:25:Also the box says it's AGP 2x, the savage4 is AGP 4x?
It is Savage3D, it says so clearly on the box.
But I bet it does not run at 125 MHz, the specs could be simply copy-pasted from initial press release.
It also says "Glide"... whatever that means 😀
Munx wrote on 2023-04-19, 09:45:It is, but with a TV-tuner.
No TV tuner, just TV out... apparently.
I straight out ignored that, like "Sure.".
Anyway new in box....
