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First post, by Robin4

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http://web.archive.org/web/19970625152837/htt … iver/driver.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20010616202951/htt … com.tw/service/

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 1 of 11, by RacoonRider

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Hey, thanks!

Reply 2 of 11, by rkurbatov

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Most of that doesn't work anymore.

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300

Reply 3 of 11, by Horun

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Hmm you just need to know how to use wayback
Try these: http://web.archive.org/web/20010309091258/htt … uct/product.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980128195139/htt … er/driverac.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980611012627/htt … er/driverdf.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980611012642/htt … er/drivergl.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19980611012704/htt … er/drivermz.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815234941/htt … te/website.html
manuals: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.datae … ebsite/MANUAL/*
utils: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.datae … bsite/UTILITY/*
bios: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.datae … /website/BIOS/*
driver: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.datae … com.tw/driver/*
driver2: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.datae … ebsite/DRIVER/*
Note: anything larger than 1024k/1Mb will probably be corrupted.
added: fixed some bad links

Last edited by Horun on 2023-07-09, 19:51. Edited 3 times in total.

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Reply 4 of 11, by rkurbatov

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Not for my card. I remember how I downloaded these drivers back in 2000, when they added DirectX 5 support for my card. Now I bought the same one. 😀 I found the DataExpert drivers CD, it has everything I need.

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300

Reply 5 of 11, by Horun

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Ahh Good. which card do you have ? Where did you find the driver CD ?

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Reply 6 of 11, by rkurbatov

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Horun wrote on 2023-07-09, 19:53:

Ahh Good. which card do you have ? Where did you find the driver CD ?

DSV6422, Alliance ProMotion 6422 chip. I remember how badly I wanted 2Mb of VRAM and wanted to test QNX/Photon (it required VBE 2.0 that was supported only through UniVBE).

I have a bunch of PCI videocards on different chips, want to play a little bit with VBE/AF, maybe some benchmarks. And some VRAM chips for sure, now I'm fully packed 😀

As for disk, I found it here: https://archive.org/details/expertcolorid710221i

There are two more. but I've seen one of them on Vogons Drivers section.

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300

Reply 7 of 11, by Horun

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Actually the drivers are on the archive of the website: http://web.archive.org/web/19970201214658/htt … driver/dsv6422/
and 6422dwnt.zip are the same as on that cd..

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Reply 8 of 11, by rkurbatov

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That's really strange. I was lurking Wayback Machine for a day or so, probably trying more recent and non-working links.

Thanks, I found the new BIOSes there I am going to try.

Also I found this page - https://driverzone.com/drivers/alliance (EDIT: available only through archive - http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://driverzo … ivers/alliance* )

It has drivers for OS/2 (also available through Archive). Now I have full list of drivers that were provided with my card.

So funny, OS names that were completely unknown to me back then liks SCO Unix or OS/2 are now possible to install 😀

Last edited by rkurbatov on 2023-07-11, 22:22. Edited 3 times in total.

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300

Reply 9 of 11, by Horun

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Great !

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Reply 10 of 11, by Robin4

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driverzone page does not seems to work.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 11 of 11, by rkurbatov

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Robin4 wrote on 2023-07-11, 22:05:

driverzone page does not seems to work.

I mean: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://driverzo … ivers/alliance*

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300