creepingnet
Veteran Member
Sigh, what a journey it has been trying to find the proper Windows 3.1x drivers for this card so I can run it in my 486 DX4. So I got this card out of an old 486 DX2-66 that was used for Computer Aided Design back in the 90's that was in the skip where I used to work a few years ago. It's a 4MB VLB Graphics Card with a Cirrus Logic CL GD-1501 chip on it, and a TI chip of some sort that goes up to 1280X1024 screen resolution.
I've hunted high and low for the drivers for almost 3 years now, using Google, Yahoo, Webcrawler, Metacrawler, spending hours in the archives at cd.textfiles.com, all looking for two files....1280win.exe, and 1280util.exe, which are supposed to make the 2 disk set with the drivers and the utilities for the card on it. Every site that says they have them (windrivers.com, ftp.pipeline.com.au, and a hand full of other places) almost always have broken links or a broken website that does not work.
So I'm wondering if anyone here happens to have the disks or know of a place where I can find the disk images of this card. I'd hate to give up on it as it's a pretty nice graphics card for it's time. Media vision is out of business, their FTP is long gone, and I've gone so far as to look for it's smaller sister card's drivers to use - the 1024 model, and even that is like finding a needle in a haysta
so my question is
Does anyone have the disks, images of the disks, or the files? Or know where I can get em'? Or does anyone know if using the Cirrus Logic drivers or TI drivers would work? And which chip would be the chip to use them?
I've hunted high and low for the drivers for almost 3 years now, using Google, Yahoo, Webcrawler, Metacrawler, spending hours in the archives at cd.textfiles.com, all looking for two files....1280win.exe, and 1280util.exe, which are supposed to make the 2 disk set with the drivers and the utilities for the card on it. Every site that says they have them (windrivers.com, ftp.pipeline.com.au, and a hand full of other places) almost always have broken links or a broken website that does not work.
So I'm wondering if anyone here happens to have the disks or know of a place where I can find the disk images of this card. I'd hate to give up on it as it's a pretty nice graphics card for it's time. Media vision is out of business, their FTP is long gone, and I've gone so far as to look for it's smaller sister card's drivers to use - the 1024 model, and even that is like finding a needle in a haysta
so my question is
Does anyone have the disks, images of the disks, or the files? Or know where I can get em'? Or does anyone know if using the Cirrus Logic drivers or TI drivers would work? And which chip would be the chip to use them?