So yesterday and today was a bit of a #VintageComputing roller coaster ride. Yesterday I was out of town for a talk, and decided to pick up a few items I had bought on the Danish equivalent to Ebay. Specifically a couple of lovely CD-ROM drives, audio cables and a Sound Blaster Live PCI card. All good and well. The seller and I have a lovely conversation about old and vintage computers, and he mentions that he has a #TsengLabs #ET6000 PCI graphics card laying around. Obviously he's not that interested in that particular time in computing history, and I - being the lovely buyer I am - offers to take it off his hands for about €25. I have a soft sentimental spot for the #ET4000 card, since it was the pinnacle of demo scene graphics cards when I was a kid. Anyway, I buy it and later find out that they sell for around €160. Great deal, right? Kinda. Turns out it had a loose connection, and I thought now would be a great time to try my skills in #SMD re-flowing for the first time...

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I finally managed to install some proper drivers for my virtual 86Box graphics card on Windows 3.11. This is a Diamond Stealth-32 with only 2MB of video RAM, so it can only reach 65535 colors in a 800x600 resolution. Still a much needed improvement from the regular SVGA drivers and their 256 colors. Simply beautiful!

#RetroComputing #Win311 #86Box #Emulation #ET4000

I got a data book for the famous #et4000 graphics controller - for me one of the best Isa 2d grafik cards.
What are your memories about this chip?

#retrocomputing