Maybe these work?
ftp://78.46.141.148/mirrors/garbo/windows/dri … rs/cirruswd.zip

edit: I think those are 16 color only 😒

but maybe check these ftp://78.46.141.148/mirrors/metropoli/DISPLAY … US/CL-6420W.ZIP
(in WIN30 folder)
It is not specifically for the 542x, but there is a 256 color driver.

Thanks for the help. 😀

We can try the Cirrus CL-GD6420 drivers to work under Windows 3.0.

I tried to reply to a comments that I made in this thread, but for some reason, the blog ate my comment.

If you can get Neozeed to reply in this thread, let me know. Windows 3.x SVGA support in Qemu has been broken for sometime and we're looking on ways to patch Qemu 0.15.1 to support special video card modes for Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 under Qemu.

Qemu 0.15.1 has already been patched before, ya know.

I can confirm that they do not work on my CWD-4002 Unisys with Onboard CL542X. 🙁

ppgrainbow wrote on 2012-08-06, 00:04:

Windows 3.x SVGA support in Qemu has been broken for sometime and we're looking on ways to patch Qemu 0.15.1 to support special video card modes for Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 under Qemu.

Qemu 0.15.1 has already been patched before, ya know.

QEMU Cirrus CL-GD5446 support is still broken in combination with Windows for Workgroups 3.x
If i install the Cirrus_Logic__CL-GD_5446.zip drivers, the installation works fine and the idchip.exe detection dos program detects a CL-GD5446 but when i change the video mode, after the drivers for windows are installed the video output looks like garbage in Windows. Only the text can be read.

The same applies to bochs by the way. The only difference is, that bochs does emulate a CL-GD5430 not a CL-GD5446. Thus i used the gd5430_nt31_nt35_dos_win3x.zip drivers for it. But the error is the same. The video output is garbage and unusable.

I wonder why bochs and QEMU do have the same problem.
I know that they seem to share similar cirrus BIOS firmware but does this also apply to the cirrus emulation code?

Tested with QEMU version 7.0.0 from Debian bullseye backports package (Debian 1:7.0+dfsg-2~bpo11+2).
And for bochs it is version 2.6.11 with debugging support turned on.

QEMU Cirrus CL-GD5446 support is still broken in combination with Windows for Workgroups 3.x

It works: https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/29/windoom-w … #comment-319206

Although in qemu 7.0, the mouse cursor disappeared following this git commit: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit … 1de9b2703bba849

I will file a bug about this.

Have you tried searching archive.org? i have had some good luck in finding obscure drivers in the past.
EDIT: I just found this, it doesn't seem to be made by cirrus, YMMV that it appears to be a universal vga driver for various programs, including win3.0
https://archive.org/details/floppy_202011

Vic Zarratt wrote on 2023-01-17, 22:48:

Have you tried searching archive.org? i have had some good luck in finding obscure drivers in the past.
EDIT: I just found this, it doesn't seem to be made by cirrus, YMMV that it appears to be a universal vga driver for various programs, including win3.0
https://archive.org/details/floppy_202011

Thank you for the help! When I get time, I'll try it on a Windows 3.0 VM. 😀

Sigh ! working in an emulator is not same as working in real life hardware but hope it does work for you, please report back if it does/does not.

Hm. Cirrus CL-GD5446 seems to be Windows accelerator (PCI).
I would be highly surprised if manufacturers still bothered to produce any drivers for it after 1992/1993.

Windows 3.0 was a very primitive graphical extension from 1989, by comparison and didn't support any type of acceleration (GDI, DCI, hardware mouse cursor etc).

While it looks similar to its succesor Windows 3.1x, it does support only a fraction of the features.
No DDE, TrueType, no audio/MIDI, no WinG, no WinMem32, no Win32s, no new Common Dialogs.

Even Microsofts own products (Visual Basic etc) encouraged users to use Windows 3.1 instead, if possible.

At least, VB1 and Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.x programs can run on it.
The latter in Real-Mode, even. And on 8086, if the compiler is forced to do that.

Anyway, there's something that makes me wonder:
Why do evwn bother running Windows 3.0 on a 386+?
The PCI card clearly needs a 386/486 motherboard or higher.

And even if it's nostalgia - why not use Windows 3.1 and replace progman.exe and friends (except setup/control panel) with the old 3.0 versions?
With the exceptions of the slightly different dithering, it should look almost the same. 😄

Edit: Correction, the Cirrus also exists as a VLB version.
Hm. Can't Qemu be modified to emulate a VLB version instead? PCI causes nothing but trouble with legacy stuff.

https://vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/139 … logic-cl-gd5430

^The link to Metropoli BBS is a good idea, though.
The BBS always has interesting stuff at hand. Please have a look.

http://files.mpoli.fi/hardware/DISPLAY/CIRRUS/

I'm quite a fan of the cirrus logic graphics, so i have the 16bit isa version of the GD5428 with the 1993 dated driver disks (v1.43) for os/2, dos and win3.1 but unfortunately not win 3.0 i also have 2 different branded GD5446 if PCI form.
There is a potentially helpful article here https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturer … irrus_logic.php which suggests that between 1987 and 1992, the following cirrus chips were made/released:
GD410 /GD420 GD510 GD520 GD5320 GD5401
so there should be windows drivers released for them. Also try searching for "AVGA drivers" or "Acumos drivers" because some cirrus chips were sold under these names as well.
I think also that companies such as spea, video7, cornerstone and diamond (and no doubt others) used cirrus chips on their boards, which leads to a chance of custom drivers.

I don't know why i didn't look here sooner, but vogons already have what you want here: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … 3&menustate=9,1

Unfortunately those are 16-color only. 🙁

1The included files are VGA drivers for Cirrus Logic VGA controllers for use with Windows 3.0:
2
3FILE:          SIZE:       RESOLUTION:     NO. OF COLORS:
4-----          -----       -----------     --------------
5VGA640.DRV     71504         640x480             16
6VGA720.DRV     71504         720x???             16
7VGA800.DRV     71504         800x600             16