Back To Past: Cirrus Logic VLB CL-GD5428 with… 1Mb of Graphics Memory!
I found in one of my old cases (powered by an Intel 486 DX 33, yeah!) this Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428-80QC-A video card. This is a VESA Local Bus (VLB) graphics card equiped with the incredible amount of 1Mb of graphics memory (and I’m sure that some young geeks can’t believe that one day, video cards had only 1Mb
of less of memory…). I’m not sure but I believe the only thing that was accelerated was the rendering of some Windows 3.1 widgets…
And here is the PC that was around this Cirrus Logic vga card:
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Wasn’t that from the time where VGA was just emerging and games that didn’t work in the terminal used a staggering four colours?
I wonder how much we better everything got (for real) since those days. As far as I can see it’s still a trick of playing old enough games on new enough hardware for decent framerates.
Also, does it work when fit in a regular ISA slot?
Nido Media
31 Mar 09 at 1:37 pm
HA HA LOL good god i haven’t seen one of those in a long time i used to have one of those along with a vlb ide card and a 486dx4/100 overclocked ofcourse to 4/120 and whoping 16MB of 30pin simms (4x 4MB simms)
Aaron
3 Apr 09 at 3:43 am
Hello Jérôme! Very pleased to meet you.
Just a few words after reading this page:
http://www.game-lab.com/index.php?section=tutorials§ion_id=5&p=tutorial&action=showtut&id=245
Here are the few words:
), 320*240 was triggered via mode X derivatives.
Mode 13 was in fact 320*200, ie 64000 bytes.
320*240 exceed 64KB ( Vram window…and realmode offsets for that matter
But I guess you know this…
It’s just my way of saying Hi.
(On topic : If i’m not mistaken the Vesa local bus was some uncommon proprietary standard. Never saw one but it was said to rock.)
HeLLoWorld
30 May 09 at 12:09 am
HI,
I really need a (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428-80QC-A video card) if it is in working condition I am ready to buy it .
PLEASE CONTACT
vika76m@gmail.com
VIKA
3 Jun 10 at 4:09 pm