Just some old Trident cards......

I'll look around here tho.

What about cards with WD 90Cxx series chips? AFAIK they supported the Paradise (S)VGA modes (at least mine did).

PVGA1A is special in one respect -- for a short while it was the only SVGA available to consumers. It was not even called SVGA then (extended VGA or VGA Plus). There may be games and demos that just don't support anything else -- so far I've found only one but I did not do really thorough search yet. The later cards are mode-compatible but there are some differences on the register level. They are not as useful in the context of SVGA emulation -- two Tseng chipsets and later S3 should cover pretty much everything else. That does not mean that I will never attempt it, just that it is not a priority.

Yes I know it's more than a year old and may be outdated but look what I found in one of my boxes while digging for an EGA card 😀

http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/images/pvga1a.jpg

I don't think I want to give it away but if you'd like to send me some test software...

Awww, what a cute VGA card! 🤣

h-a-l seems to have some interesting boxes of "junk" around. I wonder what else can be found there 😀

Well unfortunately the only exciting ones are the graphics cards and a few exotic things, most of it are MFM/IDE/parallel/serial cards and boring 386/486 mainboards...
And definitely no 8514A 😀

I've got an old book about programming CGA/EGA/VGA cards using Turbo Pascal (by François Gervais). It also covers programming the mode 5Eh of Paradise PVGA1A. It has several samples of code. Unfortunately, it's in Spanish. Anyway if someone is interested, I could scan a few pages.

That's a nice card! I've stopped looking for one after I got WD90C00 (a.k.a. PVGA1B), it is close enough for my purposes but not as good of collector's item as yours. Now, if only I had time to actually work on all of that missing functionality in the existing PVGA emulation...
eL_PuSHeR: Are there any chapters on modes 59h-5Bh in that book? 5Eh is not a big deal, it's just another banked 256-color mode. 59h-5Bh are unusual and pretty much unique to PVGA cards. I don't think there were any games using those modes, though.

Vasyl: Unfortunately, it only covers mode 5Eh (640x400x256) just because that was the on-board VGA on Amstrad PC2086. It only had 256KB of video RAM. The book is dated circa that time (1988).

There may be games and demos that just don't support anything else -- so far I've found only one but I did not do really thorough search yet

What would the name of that game be?[/code]

Wonderland by Magnetic Scrolls. Runs in 800x600 but only on PVGA1A and V7 VEGA cards. It can be patched to run on anything else easily: 800x600x16 mode does not require bankswitching and the game does not even check SVGA type. The only thing it really needs is correct video mode.

I think patching it for using some 800x600 VESA 1.2 mode would be a good bet.