From: luckybob77@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 1:30:16 PM UTC-6, Christian Holzapfel   
   wrote:   
   > > But why? The ATI GUP was a happening card for the time, but it smacks    
   > > into 1,024x768. How many current monitors go that small on the screen    
   > > >natively< ?   
   > Maybe, but what video adapter are you using then on your favorite Micro   
   Channel boxes?    
   > My vision is (and sometimes I have a strange mind) enabling everyone playing   
   with the top-of-the-line video card of that time on vintage systems, finally   
   getting high color on 1024 pixels with DirectX support. Something the XGA2   
   cannot give us today.    
   > If you still play around with MCA, your probably down to 800x600 right now.   
   > > So the GUP might serve as a basis for a current adapter implementation,    
   > > but should it be replicated?   
   > Why would you want a modern GeForce or anything on MCA? Think of the drivers   
   for Win3.x/95/OS2 alone.    
   > The GUP only comes in range because it's 30 years old technology, and   
   technology has progressed in a way that an "anyone" could rebuild it at home   
   without extraordinary equipment. Soldering a PGA-208 is fine for me today, but   
   a BGA-960 maybe not.   
      
      
   I'd actually be interested in a VOODOO 1 card for the later MCA machines.    
   obviously it would only be practical on the very late 486 and the pentium MCA   
   rigs, but that seems to be an easier goal than a complete video card.  As I   
   understand it, the VOODOO    
   is little more than a voltage regulator, a pack of ram chips and the actual   
   TMU/Ramdac/frame buffer voodoo chips.   
      
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