Nice setup! 👍 Cool that the hard drive came back to life, was it a 10MB Seagate?

I've seen there are a few apps that let you do a couple of dual monitor tasks if you have both CGA and MDA cards, think Lotus 123 was one of them, what did you try with the dual monitors on this ATI card?

Always great to see another historical machine up and running again

CC-Adam wrote on Yesterday, 07:56:

Nice setup! 👍 Cool that the hard drive came back to life, was it a 10MB Seagate?

I've seen there are a few apps that let you do a couple of dual monitor tasks if you have both CGA and MDA cards, think Lotus 123 was one of them, what did you try with the dual monitors on this ATI card?

Thanks!
Yes, it has the original 10 MB Seagate ST-412 in it.
I was just curious to see what happens if VGA and MDA are connected at the same time. There was no motive behind it, only curiosity.
The MDA monitor did not get a signal.
With this videocard it takes a bit of time for the MDA monitor to get a signal. Maybe I will try by attaching the VGA after I have an MDA output.

In the next couple of weeks an FPU (Intel 8087-1) will arrive and thinking of adding a mouse later.
I want to try SimCity, this game can use the FPU. Few games used it in this era.
Stunt Track Racer from 1989 is another one. This being a racer game I might do a "benchmark" with the original AMD 4,77MHz CPU and FPU ON and OFF.
Grand Prix Circuit cannot use FPU and runs quite badly (~7-10FPS), but it is still fun!
Oh, and since the IBM 5151 monitor has a very high persistence the whole game was green smear on this monitor... and this was state of the art back in 1983.
How far we evolved with 1000Hz refresh and 0,1ms response OLED monitors.

Yeah best game playing mode back in the day was to turn your lights off and turn the brightness all the way down on the monitor for less smear.