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S3 Vision 968 VLB replica

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Reply 60 of 66, by iPonRMA

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Just WOW from 2022... You definately should make an ARK 2000 VLB and WDC 9710 VLB cards!

Reply 61 of 66, by Madao

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Someone ask me after driver for Win3.1 and this card..

It is a generic 968 driver..

Reply 62 of 66, by 386_junkie

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-09-21, 22:25:

I am one person who has the STB card. How zoomed in do you want the pics? I can also take some backlit pics if that would help with seeing the traces inside the board.

I'll put the pictures on my Google Drive so you can get the full resolution pictures instead of the crap compressed pictures.

Hey!

I also have this card, though all the DRAM chips are SMD soldered onto the board while yours has a couple of sockets.

Would be great to see a functioning Virge VLB card!

Cheers

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Reply 64 of 66, by rasz_pl

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Fantastic!
You didnt include your modified symbols, but Kicad is able to recover them from cache somehow so its all good.
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Reply 65 of 66, by feipoa

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Madao, if you ever get to testing out that returned 968VL card, I'm interested.

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Reply 66 of 66, by RayeR

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Nice project, I found it today after may years when someone else put it in retroHW list thread...
I'd also like to boost my VLB platform as I have only some 1MB Cirrus and Trio32. But Vision 968 is not easy to get. I have at least one PCI card with it but I'm not going to canibalize it. I would rather build Virge VLB as I have more spare Virge PCI cards that are not extraordinary in any way so I wouldn't hesitate canibalize it.
Also it would be nice to add some RGB2HDMI converter to connect moderns LCDs witohut analog VGA...

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