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First post, by ScoutPilot19

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Hello everebody ! My neighbour, a man of outstanding computer knowledge found very rare and interestiing device - legendary videocard - Viking by Moniterm - which supports monochrome 1280x960 and was made in the late 80's. It's sad, but we can't find drivers for any windows version - even pictures of real card can't be found in the Web...

So Maybe someone can help to find the drivers ?

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Reply 1 of 3, by elianda

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Isn't this using the Hitachi ACRTC HD63484P8 ?

You need most likely specific application support for it.

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Reply 2 of 3, by ScoutPilot19

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elianda wrote:

Isn't this using the Hitachi ACRTC HD63484P8 ?

You need most likely specific application support for it.

Yes it uses that chip. The man who found it says, that there were drivers for the Viking for Windows/286, Windows/386 and Win 3.0. About Win 3.1 he is ot sure - but many DOS applications had drivers of this device, like Ventura Publisher, Autocads of the age and so on...

Reply 3 of 3, by Ozzuneoj

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Giving this thread a massive bump! There isn't much information about these anywhere online, so I figured I'd post here in case the OP is subbed to the thread.

I managed to obtain a Moniterm Viking like the one pictured in the OP (minus the big red sticker on the HD63484P8 chip), and I would love to be able to do something with it.

Has anyone ever located any drivers for it?

Also, this thread mentioned that the display output on it is an ECL interface and that the Atari ST community has adapters to use them on a VGA monitor. Does anyone know if that is true? I can't find any other references to Moniterm Viking and ECL elsewhere online, but I haven't looked a ton yet. There is such an adapter here, and I don't know if it's the same thing but there is one for Sun computers here as well.

aaannnd... I got a MicroChannel version of this card for the IBM PS/2 in the same lot, which is super awesome and apparently even more rare. I will post pics of them later if there is any interest. I have a PS/2 Model 90 but I have a feeling that the onboard XGA graphics is a lot more up to date than this so it would be a strange addition to the system... still, maybe I could at least test it. 😀

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.