First post, by jdredd
I have the ISA Trident 8900D. Common card.
Like a lot of video cards it seems of this era, they had some kind of expansion port, such as these and the 26 pin port deal at top.
Was this ever used for anything? The magic 8 ball seems to say Outlook not so good....
So if not. What COULD it be used for? Was there any documentation for these ports? Ala, add more video ram?
Basically getting to, what could someone do if they had the smarts... not me, but someone else to make something that could snap on and add some features that we 30+ years later can take advantage of?
I know 1mb seems to be the norm then and not alot took advantage of it in DOS days? So if could say add 1MB more... then people who port games sources such as wolf/doom3d could in theory maybe, take advantage of
all them video ram bits in some way to do programming magic for speed enhacements and the likes.
I know dumb stuff from a dumb guy.... Sorry... I havent had to think about of any of this stuff until recently getting back into the retro world so I am behind in the ways.
