Matrox didn’t have any “dos” drivers

Application specific ended in 1993, univbe was a mistake see bag

So, is there a reference list of matrox cards than run in Dos ?

Every Matrox video card runs in DOS. Every graphics card runs in DOS to be precise 😀 With some kind of success.

UniVBE (or Scitech Display Doctor) is a kind of a driver that unifies lots of old SVGA cards and make them to follow the VESA/AF standard as close as possible by converting special acceleration abilities like line drawing or BitBLT operations into native videocard calls.

That's the list of cards from Matrox that are supported:
. Matrox MGA Ultima, MGA Impression Plus, MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II
. Matrox MGA Mystique, MGA Mystique 220, Productiva G100, Millenium G200

But most (if not all) of DOS games should work with it without UniVBE driver. The difference is in amount of additional video modes or some acceleration functions that cause some speed up, but that's mostly related to the latest DOS videogames.

I use a G400Max in dos. sometimes I need to load the VESA TSR driver but thats rare.

So can I imagine that a G550, a P650, a P690, a Parhelia, a QID or epica (all PCI version) works ?

Once again, what do you mean by "works"?

Here is the table of the DOS games with known 'attitude' to the videocards.
https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/

Obviously, Matrox is not THE BEST choice if you need the videocard that supports (almost) ALL of the DOS games. This requires strict following of all modes. I suppose, you'll have problems with something like Pinball dreams or different DOS demos. But as the average VideoCard for typical late DOS era games it should work.

Otherwise, try something from S3. Personally I chose Trident, it's one of the best AGP cards for that criteria (DOS support).

first thanks to reply to me, and all my apoligies to respond so lately.

rkurbatov wrote on 2022-01-18, 15:46:

Once again, what do you mean by "works"?

i mean installing a driver and no need to use any "tricks" or suffering of problemes. Like BloodyCactus said

BloodyCactus wrote on 2022-01-17, 13:59:

sometimes I need to load the VESA TSR driver .

for exemple.
The reason why I ask if matrox cards (of any generation) "works" with DOS games is about a "nicer render" probqbly due to a better RAMDAC.

@rkurbatov i hope you are fine.

gear wrote on 2022-02-28, 09:08:

@rkurbatov i hope you are fine.

I'm in Lviv, thank you. It's still quite place. Thank you. We'll win.

rkurbatov wrote on 2022-03-01, 19:27:

We'll win.

I hope so. All my best.