Matrox Hyper+/WIN
The Hyper+/WIN was Matrox' first ISA graphics accelerator card. It was based on the S3 86C924 Carrera chipset. This card may also be known as the Matrox HiPER-VGA/WIN.
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Released | 1992 |
| Bus | ISA 16-bit | |
| Chipset | S3 86C924 "Carrera" | |
| Standards | Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA | |
| Memory | 1 MB DRAM | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (video out) 26-pin VGA Feature connector |
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| RAMDAC | AT&T ATT20C492, Sierra SC11483CV, or Winbond 82C490 DirectColor | |
| Part # | 0472-00 | |
| FCC ID | - | |
| Price | At launch: $695 (MSRP) February 1992: $525 (street) |
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| See Also | - |
The card here could display at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 in 16 colours, 800 x 600 in 256 colours, or 640 x 480 in 32,768 colours.
I believe that just before this card, Matrox produced one called the Matrox HiPER VGA, also based on the S3 83C924 with 1 MB of video memory.
Board Revisions
Just one board revision is known for the Hyper+/WIN, which is A.
Competition
The HiPER Win and HiPER Plus cards were part of their professional series, aimed at the CAD market. It would have competed directly with the Hercules Graphics Station Gold 16 and 24, the Boca Research VGA Plus, and the Artist Graphics WinSpeed 100 and 150. Some of these cards were extremely cheap (the Boca retailed for just $149), but most were over $400 and going up to $1,000.
In the Media
Advert for the Matrox HiPER Plus, February 1993
Setting it Up
I have no information on configuring the Hyper+/WIN card. It has four DIP switches on the backplate, most likely to configure the type of monitor attached.
Downloads
It's highly likely drivers shown here will work with either the original HiPER WIN and HiPER+/WIN card, since they are both based on the same S3 924 chip.
Operation Manual Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Original Utility Disk Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Video BIOS ROM v740-3 Get in touch if you can provide this missing item!
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Video BIOS ROM v774-0 Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Windows 3.1 Driver Thanks to Adrian Kovac for providing this! |
AutoCAD Driver Includes AutoCAD driver and Matrox/AutoCAD Dynaview palette configuration utility. |
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