VT Prototype Shrine
A collection of VT prototype hardware
the whole bunch
| ISA Bridges |
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I guess this is the first revision of an Zorro-ISA Bridge. This was long long before my time at VT. |
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An ISA bridge with two VGA connectors, possibly for the Domino, since there are no relays on the card. |
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| Domino |
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Different revisions of Dominos. |
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This one is special: a fully populated production card with a little add-on DAC that allows display of full 16.8 million colors with a Domino, not just 32k. |
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| PII |
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The upper card has a little badge on the graphics chip stating "Cloanto" — it means the card was once given to them for their software developments. |
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The lower "card" is a papered version of an Ariadne (I) to check the design fitting. |
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This one is special in that it was fitted with some newer relays to try out for a newer design revision. |
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| Picasso Classic |
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This one never made it into production. It was thought of as a PII version for the A500(+). I've been told it actually never worked. |
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| MultiIO |
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This card was also never produced nor made it to a working state. Harald Frank of vmc was involved in the development, I guess for the software. The card was to provide fast serial and parallel IO and also PC-compatible floppy IO for cheapish PC floppy tape streamers. |
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| PIV |
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Left: the first PCI Bridge prototype still with two big AMD MACH PLDs. It was created for the planned Picasso III which never saw the light of day. Right: handmade proto of the Denise adapter for the PIV. |
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The second PCI Bridge proto for the PIV, this time already with the later used XC5210 Xilinx FPGA, but the 160-pin version. |
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PCI adapter for the PIV, meant for the never-finished 3D Module development. One could fit a Mac 3D Overdrive into the backplane and connect it to a Paloma for pixel capture into the Cirrus framebuffer. |
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Prototype of the work-alike DAC that does all the magic for the 3D Overdrive. |
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VT Prototype Shrine
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