Drivers for Compudyne VGA 1024 card

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2 total messages Started by Martin Davies Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00

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Author: Martin Davies
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00

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I've just suffered a failure of my Trident 8900D video card, and
have had to reinstall my elderly (about 5 years old) Compudyne
VGA 1024 video card into my PC.  The card uses (I think) the
ET4000 chip, and has 512k of video RAM on board.

The disk that came with the card when I bought it in the USA in
1991 includes a driver for Windows 3.0; it'll give 640 x 480 x
256, 800 x 600 x 16 and (interlaced) 1024 x 768 x 16.  I've set
it up to the 800 x 600 mode (under Win 3.1), and have found that
the font size is undesirably large when compared to the Trident
card.

Does anyone know of any ftp or Web sites where I might find some
more recent drivers either specifically for the Compudyne card
or generically for the ET4000 chip?  Ideally I'd like to get
back to using 800 x 600 x 256, with a smaller font.

TIA,
-- 
Martin Davies

Re: Drivers for Compudyne VGA 1024 card

#12245

Author: "David G. Bell"
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <845418677snz@amdavies.demon.co.uk>
           Martin@amdavies.demon.co.uk "Martin Davies" writes:

> I've just suffered a failure of my Trident 8900D video card, and
> have had to reinstall my elderly (about 5 years old) Compudyne
> VGA 1024 video card into my PC.  The card uses (I think) the
> ET4000 chip, and has 512k of video RAM on board.
> 
> The disk that came with the card when I bought it in the USA in
> 1991 includes a driver for Windows 3.0; it'll give 640 x 480 x
> 256, 800 x 600 x 16 and (interlaced) 1024 x 768 x 16.  I've set
> it up to the 800 x 600 mode (under Win 3.1), and have found that
> the font size is undesirably large when compared to the Trident
> card.
> 
> Does anyone know of any ftp or Web sites where I might find some
> more recent drivers either specifically for the Compudyne card
> or generically for the ET4000 chip?  Ideally I'd like to get
> back to using 800 x 600 x 256, with a smaller font.

Not in IP support question -- maybe demon.tech.pc is the place?

You may actually have a slightly better video card now, except for the 
memory.  There are drivers out there, but not obviously labelled for the 
ET4000 chipset.  The drivers I used for my ET4000 were ISTR labelled as 
for a brandname of Boca...  They were on a CD-ROM of the old CICA 
windows software site.


-- 
David G. Bell -- Farmer, SF Fan, Filker, Furry, and Punslinger..

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