RayeR wrote on 2022-01-09, 22:59:

Matrox Millennium cards are not meant for gaming (weak 3D without texturing) they are for proffesional work. I appreciate drivers for 3D Studio, AutoCAD, Microstation...

Ok, that's basically my assessment: Professional cards with no real use to a guy like me regardless of memory.
I'll just consider the card a somewhat interesting oddity in my collection hoard then.
Thanks! 👍

RayeR wrote on 2022-01-09, 22:59:

Matrox Millennium cards are not meant for gaming (weak 3D without texturing) they are for proffesional work. I appreciate drivers for 3D Studio, AutoCAD, Microstation...

Millennium II has texturing though.

Ok, Millennium 1 hasn't, Mil.2 has but another features like alpha blending, bilinear filtering was still missing. Here are some pictures of 3D games on Matrox...
http://retro.swarm.cz/nt4-opengl-mini-client- … ti-rage-ii-pro/

While writing the Amiga driver for the Matrox PCI cards, I came across the ultimate answer to this: The Millennium II cannot address memory beyond 8MB as framebuffer. So there is no way this gets you additional resolutions. Anything above 8MB is offscreen Bitmaps or textures for 3D.

ok, I'm happy with 1600*1200/truecolor desktop.
Do you have any datasheet or programmer's manual for Millennium chip? Or you ported from Linux?

RayeR wrote on 2024-11-29, 19:44:

ok, I'm happy with 1600*1200/truecolor desktop.
Do you have any datasheet or programmer's manual for Millennium chip? Or you ported from Linux?

Have the Manuals. The highest resolutions the Chip can actually do are 1920x1440x16 and 1920x1200x24. However, at least my Windows driver does not offer any 16:9 resolutions. Also, on my cards there is a notable degradation in Signal Quality compared to power resolutions.

Where can be found the programming manual? Could you upload it somewhere?

RayeR wrote on 2024-12-01, 05:42:

Where can be found the programming manual? Could you upload it somewhere?

Not a programming manual, but I have this, section 4.2.1 describes the memory organization.

Not a programming manual, but I have this, section 4.2.1 describes the memory organization.
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Thats what I am using.

Thanks, it looks there's quite detailed registers descriotion, maybe usefull for some playing...

RayeR wrote on 2021-12-21, 17:16:

I made it!
I had sent a next batch of PCB designs to China and received the PCBs. I just assembled one MGA 4MB WRAM module ver 1.1 and finally it works. I have 4 blank PCBs left.
Unfortunatelly I'm still unable to set 1600x1200/truecolor mode. I revealed some extended monitor settings in Matrox control pannel where I could configure higher modes like 1600x1024/32bpp and very obscure 1920x1034 /32bpp that definitely utilize 8MB but 1600x1200 mode was there only in 8 and 16bpp options. I need to try some registry hacking - thread: What is minimum VRAM size for 1600x1200 mode in truecolor under WinNT/2k/XP?

Hello, RayeR! Did you publish the design files for free (e.g. GitHub) or could you sell a PCB?

Yes, I still have some PCBs left and don't plan assemble more.
As you are from Hungary, that's nearby, it would be possible to send it via https://www.zasilkovna.cz/en
It's CZ company and I checked they send also to Hungary for 4 euro shipping. You need to install their app and order the shipping, address of recipient (you) and sender's name and it will generate a code that you send me and I use it in parcel shop for sending the package. For deails contact me via email (at bottom of my homesite, as a newbie you probably can't send PMs to other members).