ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/TSENG/ET3000.ZIP

how do i open the link ? when i click on it nothing happens

You need a browser that supports FTP or some other dedicated FTP client. New browsers had dropped support for it some time ago 🙁

I've attached the drivers here:

drivers worked for him thanks 😀

These files seems to be meant for the Orchid ProDesigner ET3000 card, but presumably will work on any ET3000.

Unfortunately it seems disk1 is missing from the ZIP file. Not sure either what it would have contained.
And these are not actual disk copies, but only the files with the original timestamps changed. But at least the original file metadata can still be partly seen in the included LABEL-* text files.

Disk2 contains Windows/386 2.11 drivers, and disk3 contains the DOS utilities to change video mode (VMODE.COM) and VGA font (FLOAD.COM/FEDIT.COM).

It does not include the VDIAG.COM, DMODE.COM, VANSI.SYS, HOTKEY.COM, HOTZOOM.COM or ROMDATE.COM utilities mentioned in the Puretek VGA Ultra ET3000 documentation.
https://archive.org/details/tseng-labs-et3000 … uretek-vgaultra

Are there any other ET3000 disk sets that have survived? Searching online, I only find Windows 3.0/3.1 driver disks.

_Rob wrote on 2023-04-21, 12:41:

These files seems to be meant for the Orchid ProDesigner ET3000 card, but presumably will work on any ET3000.
Unfortunately it seems disk1 is missing from the ZIP file. Not sure either what it would have contained.

But it isn't missing...

1$ unzip -t ET3000.ZIP 
2Archive:  ET3000.ZIP
3    testing: ET3000/                  OK
4    testing: ET3000/DISK1/            OK
5    testing: ET3000/DISK1/-------.---   OK
6    testing: ET3000/DISK1/------.---   OK
7    testing: ET3000/DISK1/ACAD_9.10   OK
8    testing: ET3000/DISK1/AUTOCAD.20   OK
9    testing: ET3000/DISK1/DSORCHID.EXE   OK
10    testing: ET3000/DISK1/GEMSETUP.V22   OK
11    testing: ET3000/DISK1/GEMSETUP.V30   OK
12    testing: ET3000/DISK1/GEMSETUP.V31   OK
13    testing: ET3000/DISK1/GEM_VEN.XXX   OK
14    testing: ET3000/DISK1/HOTKEY.EXE   OK
15    testing: ET3000/DISK1/HOTZOOM.EXE   OK
16    testing: ET3000/DISK1/LABEL-1     OK
17    testing: ET3000/DISK1/SD1024.SYS   OK
18    testing: ET3000/DISK1/SD1024.VGA   OK
19    testing: ET3000/DISK1/SD800.SYS   OK
20    testing: ET3000/DISK1/SD800.VGA   OK
21    testing: ET3000/DISK1/TINST1.EXE   OK
22    testing: ET3000/DISK1/TPACK1.COM   OK
23    testing: ET3000/DISK1/VP2_0.TXT   OK
24    testing: ET3000/DISK1/VPDRV2_0.EXE   OK
25    testing: ET3000/DISK2/            OK
26[...]

Ok, indeed seems the zip file contains more. but...

1$ unzip ET3000.ZIP 
2Archive:  ET3000.ZIP
3ET3000/:  mismatching "local" filename (README.1ST),
4         continuing with "central" filename version
5file #2:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  37
6file #3:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  80
7file #4:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  137
8file #5:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  193
9file #6:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  248
10file #7:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  304
11file #8:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  12008
12file #9:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  15595
13file #10:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  18558
14file #11:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  21237
15file #12:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  21294
16file #13:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  22093
17file #14:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  30415
18file #15:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  30771
19file #16:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  56332
20file #17:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  81893
21file #18:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  107252
22file #19:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  132611
23file #20:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  142917
24file #21:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  148754
25file #22:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  149176
26file #23:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156698
27file #24:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156741
28file #25:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156799
29file #26:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156856
30file #27:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156912
31file #28:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  156967
32replace ET3000/DISK2/DVGA1024.GRB? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: N

Seems my issue is with the ftp server, downloading the attachment instead works.

Disk1 contains Autocad 9/10, GEM 2.2/3.0/3.1, Ventura Publisher drivers and HOTKEY and HOTZOOM. No trace of the VDIAG utility.

Does anyone have dmode.exe for et3000 or know where to get it?

Kekkula wrote on 2024-03-19, 17:25:

Does anyone have dmode.exe for et3000 or know where to get it?

Hi, I'm not sure if you need an period-correct dmode from the 80s, but in case a recent dmode does suffice..
Re: Realtek realtalk, is it the best VGA for CGA? What is?

Edit: You can also try the attached zip file. It's from The GUI Gallery site. All credits goes there.
It has the driver/utility files of various old ISA VGAs, incl. ET-3000.

Fun fact, the ET3000 is old enough to have been known by East Germany's Robotron before fall of the Berlin wall. 😁

U80621: VGA Controller (Tseng Labs ET3000)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80601

Thanks for the files.
This is kind of unknown world to me. I had 286 back in the day as I was kid, but it was ega machine.
I'm trying to get this card to work with 286 and philips 7bm743 monitor in hercules mode... I'm not sure if that's even possible.
I don't know if I have to do something in dos 5 to change it to monochrome mode maybe?
I've tried to change the graphics card to monochrome mode, via dip switches and by jumper, but if I try to start a game in hercules mode I always get garbled screen, game runs I can hear sound.

Hi, you're welcome!

I'm not sure if I can give a good advice here, but ATI Wonder series had monitor auto-detection, I think.

So depending on what you're trying to do this might be worth a look.

There's ATI VGA Wonder, ATI Small Wonder (CGA, Plantronics and Hercules on different screens), ATI VIP (almost VGA) etc.

Be careful with sub-models, though. An ATI EGA Wonder and an ATI EGA Wonder + are two separate shoes, so to say.
An ATI VGA Wonder and Wonder 16, too.

You can als try to ask at vcfed.org, if users here don't have an idea. We're all just human, after all. Well, almost, ha. 😅

Kekkula wrote on 2024-03-27, 19:39:

I'm trying to get this card to work with 286 and philips 7bm743 monitor in hercules mode... I'm not sure if that's even possible.
I don't know if I have to do something in dos 5 to change it to monochrome mode maybe?
I've tried to change the graphics card to monochrome mode, via dip switches and by jumper, but if I try to start a game in hercules mode I always get garbled screen, game runs I can hear sound.

Testing with my ET3000 card seems to be that the DB9 output is only capable of MDA and not Hercules, which is bizarre since it's capable of doing Hercules emulation through VGA.

Thanks for the info.
I also think that my philips monitor is limited to only MDA... At least I couldn't get it to sync to my Euro Pc monochrome signal... Of course the Euro Pc graphics chip could also be bad, since I don't own another 9pin monitor I can't test that theory.

Kekkula wrote on 2024-04-02, 06:34:

I also think that my philips monitor is limited to only MDA

I don't think so.
Hercules Graphics Card was designed to use the MDA monitor.
Both MDA and Hercules output is 18 kHz HSYNC and 50 Hz VSYNC.
Well, there may be some slight differences - some cards use 16.000 MHz crystal, some use 16.257 MHz.
But it should be well within the tolerance of the monitor.

Thanks.
I will check Euro Pc settings again now that it seems to be otherwise working.