WD90C33 / WD90C33-ZZ

The WD90C33 series was Western Digital's first to be based on the faster VESA Local Bus, leaving ISA behind. This card shown is capable of 1280 x 1024 (interlaced). The FCC ID can be mis-read as DXL9ILC077.

	Released	1993
	Bus	VESA Local Bus
	Chipset	Western Digital WD90C33-ZZ
	Standards	MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA
	Memory	1 MB (expandable to 2 MB)
	Ports	15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue out)
	RAMDAC
	FCC ID	DXL9ILC677 (Lung Hwa Electronics)
	Price
	See Also

They manufactured and sold their own card based on this chipset, called the Paradise Accelerator VL Plus.

 

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Setting it Up

Downloads

Operation Manual (missing) Get in touch if you can provide this missing item!

DOS Utility Disk Version 1.3, Nov 1993 Contains installer utility (checks for presence of card), drivers for AutoCAD, AutoShade, CADvance, Generic CADD, Lotus 1-2-3 2.2, 2.01 and 2.2.1, Lotus Symphony 1.1/1.2/2.0, PCAD, and WordPerfect 5.0 & 5.1. Also contains the VESA TSR, VGAMODE mode switching utility, and and ANSI-compatible driver for this chipset.

OS/2 2.1 & 2.11 Drivers Contains a floppy disk image containing the OS/2 display drivers for cards based on the WD90C33 chipset. ** DO NOT USE THESE ON OS/2 3.0 **

 

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