Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/video/marvel/

Wow, never knew that Matrox made S3 based cards, you really learn something new everyday....

vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/video/marvel/

Wow! Thank you for this link!

vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....

I apologize for getting into someone else's topic, but I absolutely do not see any other options to contact you - on vgamuseum I do not find a registration form, but here are personal messages.
I have an et4000ax with removed microcircuits, you have it under number 46. Could you read the sync rom and try to determine its volume?

led178 wrote on 2021-11-02, 21:21:

vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....

I apologize for getting into someone else's topic, but I absolutely do not see any other options to contact you - on vgamuseum I do not find a registration form, but here are personal messages.
I have an et4000ax with removed microcircuits, you have it under number 46. Could you read the sync rom and try to determine its volume?

Email is in trade section - exchange list. But cant provide bios, i have only STB TLI4:ERGOPowergraph which has been optimised into gray only resolutions. All other cards belong to Palcal, who has a lot more cards, no good storing system a many items on remote location and no time (his last provided photos are at last 10 years old, hes not even got time to take photos). It would take him a lot of time to find that card and im not sure if he has bios reader device.

vlask wrote on 2021-11-15, 22:04:

It would take him a lot of time to find that card and im not sure if he has bios reader device.

Thanks for the answer! I still found all the native microcircuits. And yes, the two sync rom found are the same as mine, we can assume that they are all the same.

Sometimes I wake up with strange questions on my mind. There were two today. The first was "Why is the theme from The Banana Splits TV show stuck in my head?" Let's leave that question alone for now. The second was "What were the early Matrox video cards?" That's a much more appropriate to this topic.

FYI - Someone moved the old Matrox info onto a bundle on Archive.org https://archive.org/details/ftp.matrox.com But that info is all too new for this.

Here are the ISA cards that I found--

1986-1989 Professional Graphics Series

• PG-640 - 8 bit ISA bus; Link NS32016 CPU and NS32C201 TCU.
• PG-1280 - ISA bus; Link
• PG-641 - ISA bus; TIGA 34010; 512KB Frame buffer
• PG-1281CV/8 - ISA bus; TIGA 34010; 2MB frame buffer + 1.5MB for 34010 programming
• Also existed as Microchannel, Multibus, Qbus, & VMEBus

1990-92 Magnum Series 8514a compatible GPU = WD95C00 / WD95C01

• MG-104 : ISA 512KB
• MG-108 : ISA 1024KB Link
• MG-124 : ISA 1024KB faster DAC
• MG-128 : ISA 2048KB faster DAC
• Also existed as Microchannel

1992-94 - Impression Series

• IP-8: ISA
• MGA IMPRESSION ISA: MGA II chips: TITAN & DUBIC & Helena chips w/ 3-5 MB RAM + Zbuffer
• MGA IMPRESSION VLB
• MGA IMPRESSION Pro VLB
• MGA Impression Plus: ISA; MGA IS-ATHENA chip.

1992 - Hiper VGA Series

• Hiper VGA Win A 1MB DRAM S3 86C924
• Hiper+/Win 1MB DRAM S3 86C924 ISA Board Link

1992 - Marvel Series

• Marvel MM LC A: ISA MGA Fiesta

1993 - Illuminator Series

• IP-8: ISA
• Illuminator 16: ISA
• ILLUMINATOR PRO: ISA 4MB; 3 chip GPU: VIC /0 & Tequila Chips
• Also existed as Microchannel

1994 - Ultima Series

• MGA ULTIMA: ISA; MGA ATLAS chip
• MGA ULTIMA VLB: 4MB; GPU: MGA IS-ATHENA chip
• MGA ULTIMA Plus 200 VLB: 4MB; MGA ATLAS chip

Image Capture Devices

• 1985 Matrox PIP-512: 8 bit ISA w/ CGA & RGB
• 1990 Matrox MVP-AT: ISA - Image Capture

What did I miss?

Edit: Added the impression plus and the pro graphics 641

Ebay item; 146349826495

1994; Impression Plus: ISA; MGA IS-ATHENA chip.

This looks different than anything I seen. MGA-AT & MGA-VL

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-199 … de/2up?q=matrox

edit-- OK, looks like it might be the same thing as the ultima?

https://books.google.com/books?id=RjY3gFmnC8U … %201993&f=false

Here's the Ultima Lineup from Early 1994: Link Link link w/ pics

• MGA Ultima AT - ISA
• MGA Ultima Plus - VLB
• MGA Ultima Plus - PCI
• MGA Ultima VAFC - PCI
• MGA Pro 4.5MG frame buffer & 4MB DRAM - VLB (Probably the Impression)
• MGA Video Pro - ISA ?

And Benchmarks--

"At 24 bits the ISA version of the Matrox MGA Ultima outperformed all of the VL-Bus cards in this review except its VL-Bus counterpart"

Quite the bit of unobtainium.