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First post, by mpe

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Looking for Windows 3.1 drives for the following card:

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It is quite uncommon card. This one is ExpertColor DSP64300. Some other cards sharing the same chip include Boca Research Voyager and maybe more.

Anyone has them?

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Reply 1 of 4, by matze79

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Just uncommon on VLB Card, was used a Lot in Industrial Stuff and Mobile Computing Devices.

ftp://retronn.de/driver/Chips/

https://www.retrokits.de - blog, retro projects, hdd clicker, diy soundcards etc
https://www.retroianer.de - german retro computer board

Reply 3 of 4, by mpe

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Thanks. Generic 1.0 drivers from the above site do seem to work. Although, 24bit isn't stable to complete my tests. 8/16bit work well.

The card showed indeed very nice performance. In DOS it matches high-end cards and trails only Bali32 (ARK1000PV card). In Windows performance is almost S3 864level. At least in 1024x768/256 mode which is nice consider the later is 64bit card. Hope I can 24bit driver working somehow.

I tried with and without the cache DRAM. The benefit is about 15%.

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Reply 4 of 4, by matze79

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Yes it also does bitblt

https://www.retrokits.de - blog, retro projects, hdd clicker, diy soundcards etc
https://www.retroianer.de - german retro computer board