Bobolaf wrote on 2023-05-01, 13:47:

Can anyone recommend a graphics card for Autocad under DOS that has driver still available? I know the Matrox Mystique 220 and Millennium II did but the drivers appear no longer available from Matrox. I don't suppose anyone has a copy of these drivers or can point me at an alternative card? Thanks

In case of Matrox, is this what you're looking for?
https://archive.org/details/mga-millv1.3

Hi there! I don't know of its helpful, but there's a VESA VBE driver in the form of an ADI driver. It's called "SVADI".

I've used it in AutoSketch 3..
Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6e3FzI9Tuw

Edit: Driver attached.

songoffall wrote on 2023-05-01, 15:32:

Bobolaf wrote on 2023-05-01, 13:47:

Can anyone recommend a graphics card for Autocad under DOS that has driver still available? I know the Matrox Mystique 220 and Millennium II did but the drivers appear no longer available from Matrox. I don't suppose anyone has a copy of these drivers or can point me at an alternative card? Thanks

In case of Matrox, is this what you're looking for?
https://archive.org/details/mga-millv1.3

Vogons Drivers will have them as well. I have a Millennium in my P200 box.
https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fil … &menustate=12,1

Thanks for the replies. Those were the Matrox drivers I needed thank you. I will have a look at the VESA VBE ones as would be interesting to see if other cards will do the job. Thanks again

http://files.mpoli.fi/ has lots of old drivers. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afiles. … DISPLAY+autocad shows some display (and printer) driver matches for Matrox, S3 and Trident. However I can imagine that AutoCAD drivers might be hidden in driver packages that are just labelled as for "DOS" without listing which specific applications are supported, so if you have a card in mind, you could look for DOS drivers for it.

Dmetsys wrote on 2023-05-01, 20:49:

songoffall wrote on 2023-05-01, 15:32:

Bobolaf wrote on 2023-05-01, 13:47:

Can anyone recommend a graphics card for Autocad under DOS that has driver still available? I know the Matrox Mystique 220 and Millennium II did but the drivers appear no longer available from Matrox. I don't suppose anyone has a copy of these drivers or can point me at an alternative card? Thanks

In case of Matrox, is this what you're looking for?
https://archive.org/details/mga-millv1.3

Vogons Drivers will have them as well. I have a Millennium in my P200 box.
https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fil … &menustate=12,1

I have a Millenium in my P233 Compaq. Haven't got it working yet though 😀) but I'll get there.

doshea wrote on 2023-05-02, 08:05:

http://files.mpoli.fi/ has lots of old drivers. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afiles. … DISPLAY+autocad shows some display (and printer) driver matches for Matrox, S3 and Trident. However I can imagine that AutoCAD drivers might be hidden in driver packages that are just labelled as for "DOS" without listing which specific applications are supported, so if you have a card in mind, you could look for DOS drivers for it.

This is my experience, too. The diskettes that originally shipped with VGA cards had all kinds of drivers and DOS utilities included (monitor alignment/test pattern, refresh rate utility, RAM BIOS, video mode utility, font editor, VESA TSR etc).

GEM, Ventura Publisher, Windows 1&2, Autodesk, Generic CAD, Word Perfect, Works etc.
Drivers for about 12 different software products, in short.

Unfortunately, little of this had been preserved. It's as if people stripped the other drivers, because they saw no use for them.
Usually, merely the Windows 3.0 or OS/2 drivers are being available online most of the time.