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Michael Jordan in Flight SVGA on S3 Trio64v+?

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First post, by anetanel

Posted on 2018-08-21, 07:40

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I got an S3 Trio64+ with 2Mb VRAM on my 486DX4-100, and I'm trying to get the game "Michael Jordan in Flight" work at SVGA resolution.
The game has a config tool with a limited number of display cards to choose from. Most of them use the same driver (a Tseng compatible driver), but none of them is working with my card, except the basic VGA "no driver" option. Here's the list from the VIDEO.TXT file:

1Boca Super X SVGAX1  1 Meg|ts1meg.drv
2Boca Super X SVGAX1  512K|ts512k.drv
3Cardinal VGA 700  1 Meg|ts1meg.drv
4Cardinal VGA 700  512K|ts512k.drv
5Diamond SpeedStar  1 Meg|ts1meg.drv
6Diamond SpeedStar  512K|ts512k.drv
7Diamond SpeedStar 24X|wdi1meg.drv
8Genoa 7900 VGA  1 Meg|ts1meg.drv
9Genoa 7900 VGA  512K|ts512k.drv
10Orchid Pro Design II  1 Meg|ts1meg.drv
11Orchid Pro Design II  512K|ts512k.drv
12STB PowerGraph VGA  1 Meg|stb1meg.drv
13STB PowerGraph VGA  512K|stb512k.drv
14Toshiba T4400C|wd512K.drv
15Video 7 VRAMII Ergo  1 Meg|v71meg.drv
16Video 7 VRAMII Ergo  512K|v7512k.drv

Searching around I found 2 threads here in the forums that mention univbe 5.3, and supposedly a SVGA patch.
I tried using univbe, but as far as I can tell, it did nothing to this game. Maybe I'm not using it right?
And as for the SVGA patch, I was not able to find it.

Any help would be appreciated 😀

BTW, on DOSBox 7.4, when using "machine=svga_et4000" I'm able to run at SVGA when choosing one of the cards that uses the Tseng drivers.

Reply 1 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2018-08-21, 09:37

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S3 Trio64v+'s way, WAY after the pre-VESA-standard proprietary driver wild west of early SVGA support. None of those listed drivers will do you any good here and neither will UniVBE/SDD/S3VBE.

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Reply 2 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2018-08-21, 12:35

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You will want to ask old hardware related questions in Marvin. This forum is for DOS games on modern systems. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

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Reply 3 of 8, by anetanel

Posted on 2018-08-21, 12:39

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486 isn't modern enough? 😀
Will do. thanks.
(May want to add the "modern systems" to this forum's description. I really wasn't sure what is the difference between this and "Software" forum.

Reply 4 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2018-08-21, 12:47

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All of the old hardware stuff belongs in Marvin. Keep in mind the history of these forums, even the name Very Old Games On New Systems. This particular subforum was originally for running DOS games with the NTVDM of Win2k-WinXP. Forums for the retro gear stuff was mainly an afterthought added by the original owner of VOGONS to keep the retro hardware posts out of this forum.

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Reply 5 of 8, by anetanel

Posted on 2018-08-21, 12:53

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Doh.. Of course.
Even though it says so clearly (well.. clearly-ish) above the forum logo, I never got it. And I wondered what does retro computing has to do with Douglas Adams's planet destroying, bureaucratic, poet loving aliens 😀

Reply 6 of 8, by canthearu

Posted on 2018-08-21, 14:26

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The STB PowerGraph VGA is based on the Trio64 chipset it seems.

It would be the one most likely to work.

Reply 7 of 8, by anetanel

Posted on 2018-08-21, 16:52

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canthearu wrote:
The STB PowerGraph VGA is based on the Trio64 chipset it seems.

It would be the one most likely to work.

I tried all of them... none worked.
Some fail to load at all, some display text garbage, and some display some graphic garbage.

Reply 8 of 8, by Stiletto

Posted on 2018-08-22, 21:30

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Moved / merged.

anetanel wrote:
And I wondered what does retro computing has to do with Douglas Adams's planet destroying, bureaucratic, poet loving aliens 😀

That was myyyyyyy doing back in 2002... but if not me, it would have been someone else: Just letting you know I'm here now...

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do the Fandango!" - Queen

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