Okay I'll try to explain myself.

I have found that the S3 Virge/DX, 4MB, PCI is my favorite DOS/Win9x video card. End of story right? Well, maybe not.

Okay, so why do I think this is the perfect card? Everyone has their own opinion on what makes a card perfect. For instance what is the perfect car? Some would say it's about speed, others about handling, some would even say it's about off-roading. For me it's about compatibility, nothing more. No fancy features, not about being the fastest and not even about the very best image quality.

I do not like TSR programs for fixes, compatibility and what not. Could we make the S3 Virge/DX better?

I think we can. My Internet searches for my improvement have not turned up any results for a video card but it has been done on other things and is well documented.

What am I suggesting? Bank switching. Selecting between 2 Video BIOS images with a hardware switch before startup.

Why???

The S3 Virge/DX came at an interesting time and had different BIOS's available with VESA 1.2 and VESA 2.0 support. Each have their own quirks but if we can narrow down to a 'good' 1.2 and a 'good' 2.0 BIOS version and be able to switch between them then I think that would be about perfect.

What do you think?

If you are experienced with this sort of thing let me know as I am not but it looks straight forward enough.

Here are my references so far.

https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

https://www.jaapsch.net/psion/pdffiles/Eprom0 … heet_27C512.pdf

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?100 … -to-get-2-banks

http://tjaberg.com/stv_dual_bios/index.htm

http://chukaev.ru54.com/video_en.htm