Unboxing a Sealed 1980s Video Card! 

Vega seems to be a popular name for video cards.

Nice to see The Retro Rocket again! That thing is just legendary.

Great stuff, wasn't expecting the plotter bit at the end, wangdala is hilarious.

My first PC came with a Trident 1MB SVGA card, I upgraded to a TSENG LABS ET4000 later. The Motherboard was an Asustek board with AMD 386DX40 I added a Cyrix Maths Co-Processor. Annoying I had the mainboard and bits until about 15 years ago when I threw it away, silly move in hindsight.

The Wangdala kind of made my day.

Love the plotter reveal!

Hey Andy, was watching an older mail video on LGR's channel and saw your X86 based micro industrial pc contribution so i hurried over to your channel to subscribe and show you some support. Any friend of LGR's is a friend of mine. I'm looking forward to binge watching your channel! -Buddy

Superb. Fun dive into the card and awesome plotter reveal - can’t wait to see more of that!

had this exact video card in our 286! Still remember futzing around with the dip switches on the back etc. Don't think we ever had a fancy monitor so it only ever ran the standard modes. was in service up until about 1994.

Pro installation on that GoTek. :) Doom looks absolutely psychedelic in EGA. Came for the EGA, stayed for the Wangs.

Your Voice is Perfect for commercial 😁

yeah, professional shots,

Just got a massive hit of nostalgia right to the chest with this video :)..

That plotter is super cool

Wangadala ... a man of culture I see....

Loved that :)

So ega in 1980... wow that was extreme high , had Wapping 16 colors and improved from the ugliest pink (or poop brown yellow) night to (nes kinda) 16 colors HD day, must have been crazy expansive back in the 80s

My teachers used to say it's immature to paint penises on you desk and homework and whatnot. They said that i would grow out of it. I'm 40 years old and i still find it hilarious

I sometimes try to use one of those old AutoCAD versions, but I quickly realize how much easier the new ones are to use and let it go lol Interesting card, it would be cool if Fast Doom supported the higher resolution graphics modes for it

Saw the Columbia model in AutoCAD and my mind wandered. Then the ending came, perfect.

Good Video, Not my stuff but it was interesting 👍

I have a Tulip TEVA2 card that is very similar to the VEGA card (but not the same). I know it supports 640x480 from the BIOS, but I never owned a TTL monitor capable of displaying that resolution and I could not get it to work with the GBS. I have a dump of the BIOS that I should probably run through ghidra or something like that.

aww man you didnt even smell it when you opened it

I to own a ridiculous HP plotter. The 7576a Draftpro EXL. It also the best thing Ive ever putchased.

Cool piece of hardware. I wish shipping wasn't so expensive and hazardous. I'd ship you a giant multisync monitor collecting dust in my basement

Bonus psuedo Kinks at the end

I recall some old card in my accessory building’s attic with DIP switches like that. Doubt I still have it since I had to abandon that building when the landlord sold the property to developers. Unfortunately, old unidentified hardware that I couldn’t even Google for were very low on my priorities.

I bought a 5160 that had one of these in it, Sold a few months back.

Mmmm adaptive tile refresh. nom nom nom!

😍❤❤ TheRasteri and weird old hardware ❤️❤️😍

Whats the expansion port/board on the Vega board for? More VRam? Get it so that it can play Crysis. ^.^

Thank you for the video, you read about expanded video cards in wikis but you hardly ever get the name and models listed. EGA 640x350 kind of bugs me retrospectively because 80x30 ASCII would work using 640x360 instead or 360/30=12 as in a nice clean 8x12 character resolution. Just 10 measly rows short, ah so the monitor spec limit is why we had 350 tall.🤔 Hence why someone would make a 480p compliant EGA card, 80x30 ASCII with the standard 8x16 character. I don't dislike EGA but the whole CGA monitor compatibility failsafe setup meant so few games ever used the full 64-color system palette.☹ Also the default colors were still pretty loud that I think one more generation of Composite Artifact Color output was warranted for the video card standard. That is the rub of higher than standard, you form a hardware and driver island that others have to support or don't heh, plus pairing it with a compatible monitor too. Regardless very cool screen modes by that card.😁

Lol great ending

Noice

A teenage girls? I guess I'm a teenage girl, then.

Not nearly enough Richard Johnson’s in this video.

Nice thumbnail 🍆

What would happen if you installed Windows xp on another card then swapped that one in? Would it boot and run xp in cga?

No 64 color EGA games?

Is there an AutoCAD version of the ship from Flight of the Navigator you can plot out?

obligatory.

*promo sm*

Has someone EVER destroyed a monitor with the wrong video mode??? What a bunch of nonsense...

c====8, there's allways interesting in your videos Andrew. The GBS-C stills being very impressive for the price and availability.