First post, by Jo22
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Hello everyone.
Does anybody know if the Video Seven ISA VGA card is being emulated, already?
Maybe in MESS/MAME or any other, obscure emulator projects?
I'm asking, because there is a Video Seven SVGA driver in Windows 3.1!
Since usually all basic drivers are 16-Bit/80286 compatible,
this would allow running Standard-Mode in higher graphics fidelity out-of-box
without hunting down rare graphics drivers for OAK/TSENG/Paradise boards.
Anyway, it's just a question.
Old games like Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls) mentioned the V7, along with the Paradise VGA.
Here's some information about the VGA card.
https://vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/498 … o-seven-l1a4199
The card originally was a full-size card with a feature connector and 256 to 512 KB video RAM.
It had Windows and Windows /386 compatible drivers, as you can see on the box art.
So it's a late 1980s design, just like the Paradise VGA or the Tsengs/OAKs.
Attached are the images from VGA Museum, hope that's okay.
Just in case the site goes down (this happened to old-computers.com just a while ago; it's online again).
Edit: Screenshot of Windows 3.10 Setup added.
Edit: The VGA Museum also has a PDF of technical manual.. It's large, however (about 17MB).
Edit: More information about the FastWrite and V-RAM amd the other V7 models:
https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/video7.php
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