DOS Days

ATI VGA Edge series

Alongside ATI's first 2nd-gen card, the VGA Wonder+, 1990 also saw the release of the VGA Edge series which comprised the EDGE-8 (an 8-bit ISA card) and EDGE-16 (a 16-bit ISA card).

Released 1990
Bus ISA 8-bit (EDGE-8) or 16-bit (EDGE-16)
Chipset ATi 28800-2, 28800-4 or 28800-5
Standards Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA, and SVGA
Memory 256 KB
Ports 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue)
VESA Feature connector
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Price At launch: $199/$249 (EDGE-8/EDGE-16), Sep 1990: $149 (EDGE-8), Feb 1991: $139 (EDGE-16)
See Also VGA Wonder+, VGA Integra

Designed to be low-end budget cards with the VGA Wonder+ at the higher end, they offered 800 x 600 resolution in 16 colours, and served as a price-sensitive upgrade for those still on the EGA standard.

Because of the budget-nature of the EDGE series, they omitted the 9-pin digital TTL output port as well as the bus mouse port found on the more premium ATI cards.

 

Board Revisions

No details are known on different revision of this card.

 

Competition

No details are known on the competition this card competed against.

 

In the Media

Setting it Up

No configuration is required for the VGA EDGE series, with its auto-switching capability. The card came with a utility to force the display mode if necessary.


Downloads

Operation Manual
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Original Utility Disk
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VGA BIOS ROM
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DOS Drivers
15th September 1993

ATI VGA Wonder Series drivers for DOS. Includes utilities, a VESA driver, a mouse driver and software drivers for WordStar 3.31, 4.0 and 5.0, WordPerfect 4.1, 4.2, and 5.0,

Windows 3.1 Drivers
21st August 1992

ATI VGA Wonder Series drivers for Windows 3.1.
 

 

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