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Not Mac: Orchid Kelvin 64 MPEG VBA video card

Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-09-27 21:56:37 Found this puppy at the local recycler. Or rather, my brother found it. Orchid Kelvin 64 MPEG VBA/VESA video card. 2MB memory and has an MPEG decoder on it. Not too shabby for a DOS video card. 🙂 I'll be using this puppy in my DOS gaming rig.

Posted by: Byrd on 2013-09-28 01:01:55 That card will be a cracker, make sure it is coupled with your finest 486 DX4-100! From vague memory is the Tseng Labs ET4000/6000 the fastest VLB card you can get?

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2013-09-28 08:33:22 Fastest depends on color depth and resolution. My fastest VLB were high end S3 cards with 4MB of RAM, fastest at 24 bit was probably a Matrox card that is a mile long.

Posted by: CelGen on 2013-09-28 18:37:40 Holy crap that's a crowded VESA card. I see two additional VRAM pads. Try soldering in more and see if you can upgrade to 4mb.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-09-28 19:02:30 Cool! 😎

Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-09-28 21:56:23 Mine is already 2MB. The one with the open sockets is the 1MB version, which you can upgrade to 2MB. Unfortunately you can't get 4MB on this card. Here's mine:

Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-09-28 22:02:53 It does have a feature connector. Supposedly I can expand the function of the video card.

Posted by: CelGen on 2013-09-29 11:09:38 Usually you attached an MPEG card through the VFC however that's integrated. You can however attach a tuner, frame grabber or perhaps budget in for a VFX1.

Posted by: Unknown_K on 2013-09-29 12:32:02 The VESA connector was used mostly for overlay cards (CAD, video capture) to dump video to the primary card.

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