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What is this Video Card WG-6000

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First post, by koleq

Posted on 2022-04-05, 09:45

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I found this card while browsing Czech auction site.

anybody know what it is and who made it I get no results for the name WG-6000.

###HP Vectra VL 5/133 Series 4, D4644B###
CPU: Pentium 1 133Mhz
RAM: 96 MB EDO RAM (4x8MB, 2x32MB)
GPU: ELSA Victory 3DX (S3 Virge/DX 4MB)
Sound: Avance Logic ALS100 Plus+ REV 2.0
HDD: Seagate 20 GB (need to boot OnTrack)
OS: Windows 98 SE

Reply 1 of 3, by koleq

Posted on 2022-04-05, 09:53

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Oh, sadly it's not a 3D accelerator

It's a Diamond Flower, INC. WG-6000 (REV. A+) probably.

http://www.resoo.org/docs/_hardware/th99/v/C-D/54336.htm

Reply 2 of 3, by rasz_pl

Posted on 2022-04-05, 10:06

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ET6000, solid 1996 2D card to be paired with Voodoo1/2.

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 3 of 3, by libv

Posted on 2022-04-05, 17:10

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soldered 2MB 100MHz MDRAM, so yeah, et6000 indeed.

ET6000s are pretty desireable these days. MDRAM is hard to come by though, so upgrading to 4MB (the max it could address iirc) is going to be tough.

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