Wanted Any chipsets not already on VGAmuseum.info

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I am user Demiurge on VGAMUSEUM.INFO and will buy just about any reasonable price for a chipset the website doesn't already have.

I expect some of these are just unreasonable but they are missing from a completeness sense:
 
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"Chromatic Mpact! came in three variations, and we only have one."

Which one do you have. Can you post image(s)?
 
xa3d said:
"Chromatic Mpact! came in three variations, and we only have one."

Which one do you have. Can you post image(s)?
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Yeah. So there was the Mpact! and Mpact! 2. Not counting the Mpact! 2, there are three variations: /3000, R/3000, and R/3600.

We have either R/3000 or R/3600 but I have yet to find the clues to tell them apart. I haven't seen a /3000 in the wild.

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VGA Legacy MKIII - Chromatic Mpact

Multimedia accelerator based on programmable DSP often working as modem and sound card. Chips made by various manufacturers - namely Toshiba, LG and SGS-Thomson. Looking for working drivers. Cards had vendor locked drivers, so you need driver exactly for your model of card. Later drivers (fro...
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So are you saying the one you have is the same as the Pepino's Card @VGAMuseum? Or different still?
 
We don't have that one. So that's a good thing (for your search). We've a number of the Mpact Blazer Series Cards. All are New Old Stock. [see Chromatic Shrine Image]. What City/Town in Ontario?
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No problem, its OK for me. Its an IBM original 64-256k version. I will check my boards next week.
BR,
Laszlo
 
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We don't have that one. So that's a good thing (for your search). We've a number of the Mpact Blazer Series Cards. All are New Old Stock. [see Chromatic Shrine Image]. What City/Town in Ontario?View attachment 2494391
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Can you please copy files from both version 1.4 and 2.0 disks as well as floppies and upload them on for example archive.org site? Or whoever buys these cards.
Main issue is that mpact site with drivers wasnt archived on web.archive site and so far are known only 3 version of drivers - 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0. But 1.4/1.6 are vendor locked, so they wont work with jabil/dsystems and uploaders didn't specified brand of their card. Theres slight chance that later driver of version 2.0 might be universal, but it requires rom version 2.0 and cards i got borrowed for test have rom 1 or 1.2, so these are not working too. Unless someone find working drivers or rom update, then there is still chance, that you sell card with wrong rom version and it might not work with cd of specific version.
 
Vlask said:
Can you please copy files from both version 1.4 and 2.0 disks as well as floppies and upload them on for example archive.org site? Or whoever buys these cards.
Main issue is that mpact site with drivers wasnt archived on web.archive site and so far are known only 3 version of drivers - 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0. But 1.4/1.6 are vendor locked, so they wont work with jabil/dsystems and uploaders didn't specified brand of their card. Theres slight chance that later driver of version 2.0 might be universal, but it requires rom version 2.0 and cards i got borrowed for test have rom 1 or 1.2, so these are not working too. Unless someone find working drivers or rom update, then there is still chance, that you sell card with wrong rom version and it might not work with cd of specific version.
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Vlask. You joined Amibay, today. Congrats! Maybe you can help. There's an image of a the Chromatic Mpact! board (built by Jabil) @vgamuseum that shows up under Pepino's collection when searching Mpact. It looks to be "incomplete" as the expansion port in the accompanying images are only for the dsystems board, as can be seen by the difference in the ribbon cable board connectors. Can you confirm that? Thx.
 
xa3d said:
Vlask. You joined Amibay, today. Congrats! Maybe you can help. There's an image of a the Chromatic Mpact! board (built by Jabil) @vgamuseum that shows up under Pepino's collection when searching Mpact. It looks to be "incomplete" as the expansion port in the accompanying images are only for the dsystems board, as can be seen by the difference in the ribbon cable board connectors. Can you confirm that? Thx.
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Its incomplete, guess thats the state he bought it, seller might loose it, or its from some scrapyard. Who knows. Thats the state i got card from him for testing. He didnt got any drivers as well for both cards. Thats why im looking for working ones. Mpact 1 cards seems to be quite rare, but useless as well. So i guess thats why its so hard to find drivers or newer roms.
 
We're not certain about anything from a "Dsystems" company as that's pretty obscure from our resent search, but that board is fairly close to the SGS-Thomson MediaBlazer. The main differences are placement and sizes of some of the larger components, but most notably the expansion port connector it's much larger that that of the SGS-Thomson MediaBlazer and of the Chromatic Mpact Blazer PRO, AGV and MAX boards, which is smaller in size (as per the Jabil board image on @VGAMuseum).
 
The boards in my collection are hardware complete, and it's looking good for them to also be software complete.
 

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The boards in my collection are hardware complete, and it's looking good for them to also be software complete.
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Thats exactly diskette i need to upgrade that borrowed cards to never bios version to be compactible with drivers available. Can you please upload its content somewhere or send it to me and i will upload it to vogonsdrivers.
 
That's just an upgrade disk. That still won't get you to what you need.

2nd time posting this reply. Hoping it sticks this time.
 
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