Hercules 4mx Drivers

[Verbena Reynoso]

justpurchased the rmx and ready to install drivers on a mac book pro. i read the manual which says that i should visit the driver website to download the latest drivers. will these include virtual dj or do i have to download this from the virtual dj site?

But the picture quality sucks great in wind95 and no driver support for win98. And no decent working driver or software support for another video functions. Have anybody any knowledge about this card or any info of working drivers. I have found drivers from hercules but they are same than installation cd-drivers.

I have a Thriller 3D myself, but it's the 4 MB version. Also have a couple of Diamond Stealth II S220 cards (4 MB V2100) and a red V2200 card with all the output options on it (some sort of reference card). None of them have exceptional output quality. You usually had to get a Matrox card to have good quality back then.

Thanks! I had back then when I used the card so lousy monitors that didn't notice bad image quality. But now I have couple good old crt-monitors and it nearly hurts to watch. Matrox had and still have good picture quality. Voodoo 3 is not that bad than Hercules but no good. Recently I build old pc ( Fujitsu pentium pro ) and searched what old stuff I still got.

Pity that I have thrown away Voodoo Banshee and what is was Matrox MD3, I don't remember orginal manufacturer. I might find really old Cirrus video/sound card which was integrated in same isa card. I don't remember it's name. What is sorry that I have thrown away all my old 468 / pentium / amd boards. Anyway I don't have cases.

It is a disappointment that the Verite cards have such bad quality. But, in games where the resolution is low, they look fine. It's when you try to push a high res and refresh rate that they fall apart.

Have fun with that stuff. I built a Pentium Pro not too long ago as well. Such a fascinating bit of hardware, they were. Used a Intel Venus VS440FX mobo, one of the PPRO 200 Mhz w/ 1 MB cache (cheap on ebay!), 128 mb RAM. I have a newer hard drive in it tho because I can't stand old whiny bearings anymore. I found a 12x CDROM for it because the old games that run off the CD are too noisy in modern drives that spin at 5000 RPM.

It's pretty sluggish in Windows XP or 2000, so I just use Windows 98 SE on it. Quite fast with that. Very fast for DOS games! Especially those that have any 3D graphics; PPRO has a great FPU and that fast cache is excellent.

I got a legacy machine not to long ago

it was from an office running win95 so i wasnt expecting much

but it was a p3-450 128mb ram with a voodoo 3 card and a aureal vortex 2 sound card - RESULT.......

i think the trick is to use Powerstrip to set refresh. Or drivers other than the reference drivers. Diamond's Stealth II S220 drivers are better at that stuff, but they are older than reference so worse for 3D.

There seem to be loads of Hercules video card clones available through the obvious auction site. Is there a brand or chipset that is preferred/considered best? More importantly, are there any to avoid?

I never heard of any problems. All the clones get the standard text mode and the standard graphics mode perfectly right. I don't think there is demo-scene content that requires cycle-perfect compatibility to the original card, so everything should be fine. There are special cards that have hardware-basesd CGA emulation, i.e. they look like a CGA to software, but output MDA-compatible timing to the monitor, IIRC the "ATI Small Wonder" could do it, but that will be a different price class than the popular HGC/CGA (or HGC only) clone cards.

All "Hercules" cards are alike, with two exceptions:

- Hercules Graphics Card Plus - provides RamFont = loadable charsets, and text modes other than 80x25, eg. 80x43, but it's not very useful as few programs use that

- "dual" cards, ie. Hercules-and-CGA-in-one, some of them can display CGA modes on MDA/Hercules monitors, eg. the already mentioned ATI Graphics Solution / Small Wonder Graphics Solution

There may be one problem, though - Amstrad PC1512 already has onboard video, CGA + some additional modes, and I don't know if it can be disabled...

If it can't, then there's the address conflict between CGA memory and the second page of Hercules memory.

There's at least one Hercules clone where the second page can be disabled with a jumper - Tseng Labs ET1000, but it doesn't really make sense, as there are programs that heavily use the second page.

Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją grę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.

The 128K byte address space from A0000 to BFFFF is reserved for the 8-bit memory associated with certain controllers, and is not used by CPU programs. The on-board Alpha/Graphics VDU controller uses the 16K byte address range from B8000 to BBFFF for screen refresh memory. Also an optional external monochrome alphanumeric VDU controller uses the 4K memory address range from B0000 to B0FFF.

I am fairly sure I got one of those cheap, generic, single chip (apart from RAM etc) multimode adapters working on a PC-1512 3 decades ago, but the deets have had 30+ years of bioneural bitrot to expire. It's in the config switches somewhere.

You can install a Hercules and use it for text mode only - B0000..B0FFF - no conflict.

You can run graphics programs that only use the first page - B0000..B7FFF - no conflict.

But when you run a graphics program that uses the second page - B8000..BFFFF - you get garbage on the screen.

I tried this a few times, mainly HGC clones.

The following examples are done with an Nixdorf 8810 M35, which has CGA on-board (primary device).

The Hercules compatible is the secondary video adapter (chosen with MODE MONO).

The amber monitor is always the Hercules monitor. The green one is used for CGA.

To the technical side: I don't know exactly how it works.

I assume, it puts the Hercules into half mode first (register write ?),

then provides the library for Microsoft products (QB45, VBDOS, EDIT etc).

Most programs using native Hercules graphics (720x348, as opposed to CGA emulation modes) only use the first page.

But there's also plenty of exceptions: Windows 3.1 with Hercules Monochrome driver uses the second, and Blockout game uses both for double-buffering.

The preferences surely changed in the 1990s.

Watcom and some other one (DJ something?) were really hyped.

Borland's Turbo Pascal also was still important to all the sane people that didn't feel comfortable with the nerdy C/C++. ?

Borland's Turbo line (Turbo Pascal etc) used *.BGI drivers to further extend support for graphics adapters.

Maybe these drivers were intelligent enough to recognize the current state

of MSHERC or the Hercules card and kept the half mode configuration.

That being said, I haven't tested this before. I'm really curious finding out!

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The USB controller (AMD USB 3.10 eXtensible) refuse to recognize and enumerate my Hercules DJ console MP3 e2 USB device.

With my old lenovo laptop (AMD A4 5000, USB3.0) the device works fine. Latest software and drivers.

I try with an old and new INTEL based laptop and this console works fine.

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