It's easy to turn PCIe into PCI and the other way around.
While yes, it's somewhat modern, I though it was worth a mention since it's the only somewhat functional project that I know of, that's not ISA.
leileilol wrote on 2024-11-07, 08:27:Just weird frankenstein Voodoo3-5's - No complete independent replicas or custom silicon and freshly written VXDs as far as I know.
Frankenstein cards? Are these what you're talking about?
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This page has a custom ISA card built on the Tseng ET4000/W32i chip: http://www.alexandrugroza.ro/microelectronics … ller/index.html
Not available yet, but it would be possible to make an MCGA card.
Original MCGA in IBM PS/2 Model 30 (8086) was implemented as dicreet hardware.
It used 64 KB of Video RAM and could do mode 11h (640x480 mono) and mode 13h (320x200 256c). And the old CGA modes, but not EGA.
It seems primitive, but it had advantages. It did support both 15 KHz and 31 KHz monitors. For mode 13h and text mode, at least.
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If you have an old vintage ISA or PCI VGA adapter that has become unusable due to a blurry, glitchy or soft RAMDAC so the image output on a VGA CRT/LCD is unviewable, then if the graphics adapter has a Feature Connector port, it is possible to bypass the poor video quality RAMDAC part altogether with Re: CRT Terminator Digital VGA Feature Card ISA DV1000 and get a pixel perfect output out of the card.
For example, I have this Acumos AVGA2 card:
that has an absolutely dog shit blurry VGA output.
But with CRT Terminator, e.g. Warlords 2 looks perfectly crisp:
So even if a particular VGA card is of seemingly poor video quality, ending its life by throwing it into the bin might not need to be the last destination for it 😀
