there is a also a byproduct because of the research made for the VGA portion of the card - the VisionPRO 😁

this has the same features as stated above, just a CL5434 ISA vga with nice output quality 😀

You guys have done it again!

Really looking forward to testing it out! 😁

Wonderful work guys as always 👍

What, no IDE port?

jmarsh wrote on 2026-08-24, 22:31:

What, no IDE port?

That's what I was think. No Super IO for COM, Parallel, Floppy, and IDE. 😁

SScorpio wrote on 2026-08-24, 23:14:

That's what I was think. No Super IO for COM, Parallel, Floppy, and IDE. 😁

I was actually only half-joking since an IDE port only needs an address decoder and a buffer, rather than any sort of dedicated controller.

that's a good card but I’d prefer a trident GPU myself js

Wow, what an excellent card! But maybe the extra IDE would have been nice since older systems only have one.

But that would need to be a real IDE with jumpers to configure primary/secondary/tertiary etc. Not the Opti CD-ROM IDE (needs to be initialized with software so not usable with HDD) and it cannot be a PnP IDE for almost the same reason: non PnP BIOSes would need software init. So more jumpers would be needed to confuse and how many would need the extra IDE anyway?

These are two fantastic cards that will end up in my shopping cart 😁

This card had in mind 4 things and 4 things only.
1 VGA
2 Audio in/out
3 Midi
4 Lan.
Everything else you can do with it is an extra.
You can have XTIDE as bonus . As if you had a Lan card with support for it. You would need an IDE controller anyway.
We could add an IDE or CF card support ,but design wise would put the card very expensive and difficult to produce.
Any idea is always welcome!
This is intended to use anywhere you want, but our main target are 286/386 PC's , SBCs and Amiga bridge boarded computers.

I can understand people asking for IDE port, but then like Marmes said, you'd need a separate IO controller anyway for COM, Printer and floppy. So i think this project already manages to save a bunch of ISA slots by integrating 4 in 1. This is immense value for a PC someone might like a lot but won't use so much because of limited expandability.

For a small form factor SBC build this is an absolute killer kard 😀.

This looks very nice ~

Very impressive work as always!

Despite being aimed at older systems (386, etc), my main use case is likely a Pentium 4 ISA setup. One of the main reasons I'm happy to have an option to disable the VGA, since this would work well in a multi GPU setup with an ISA VGA option for legacy support.

Very impressive work again! Not necessarily something I can see a must have personally, but there sure are use cases for those who absolutely need to minimize ISA slot usage. Like with some of those small form factor LPX style systems with only couple or so free ISA slots. Tbose systems also often have integrated IO, so this would provide pretty much all the "rest".

Wow what a seriously impressive project.

Spectacular! Holy moly it's a useful sounding card. Damn, as if I didn't have enough projects and the existence of this made me think of 5 more 🤣

I respect the choice of what to include. This and an I/O card, done. People forget that an i/o card is already 4 in one, when you had to have separate HDD, floppy, serial, game cards back in the day... maybe you got parallel on the display card, maybe you got a serial parallel combo, or maybe you also needed a standalone card for that too.

This is epic.

Not including IDE is a good thing.

wow, this is great 😮
is CL5434 wired with support for Vesa Linear Framebuffer?

As always, hats off, a-ma-zing job guys! Will sign up for both models when ordering is open... 😁