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First post, by omega552003

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I aquired an old AST Premier 486/33 that was used for FAA Air Traffic Controller training and it had 2 Matrox cards in it:

  • Matrox HiPER-VGA/WIN (an S3 1MB card)
  • Matrox MM/LC/A (Marvel)

From what I can tell, the Marvel card is used for overlays. It has a custom Matrox chip called Feist which I think is an early in-house VGA chip. I was able to back up the Marvel drivers as they are DOS drivers.

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Reply 1 of 6, by vlask

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Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/video/marvel/

Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info

Reply 2 of 6, by Cyberdyne

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Wow, never knew that Matrox made S3 based cards, you really learn something new everyday....

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.

Reply 3 of 6, by omega552003

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vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/video/marvel/

Wow! Thank you for this link!

Reply 4 of 6, by led178

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vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....

I apologize for getting into someone else's topic, but I absolutely do not see any other options to contact you - on vgamuseum I do not find a registration form, but here are personal messages.
I have an et4000ax with removed microcircuits, you have it under number 46. Could you read the sync rom and try to determine its volume?

Reply 5 of 6, by vlask

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led178 wrote on 2021-11-02, 21:21:
vlask wrote on 2021-02-01, 14:54:

Some drivers for mavel, finding info would be hard....as marvel was used too much in next years....

I apologize for getting into someone else's topic, but I absolutely do not see any other options to contact you - on vgamuseum I do not find a registration form, but here are personal messages.
I have an et4000ax with removed microcircuits, you have it under number 46. Could you read the sync rom and try to determine its volume?

Email is in trade section - exchange list. But cant provide bios, i have only STB TLI4:ERGOPowergraph which has been optimised into gray only resolutions. All other cards belong to Palcal, who has a lot more cards, no good storing system a many items on remote location and no time (his last provided photos are at last 10 years old, hes not even got time to take photos). It would take him a lot of time to find that card and im not sure if he has bios reader device.

Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info

Reply 6 of 6, by led178

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vlask wrote on 2021-11-15, 22:04:

It would take him a lot of time to find that card and im not sure if he has bios reader device.

Thanks for the answer! I still found all the native microcircuits. And yes, the two sync rom found are the same as mine, we can assume that they are all the same.

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