Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF ! http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

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Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF

AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0

Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

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Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF ! http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf

Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

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Uh, you DID see the ADFs, right?

I've never seen such a >short< ADF, but it is possumble.

Did you try the @8044.ADF?

Alex wrote:

Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF !
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

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Hi !

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF

AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0

As far as I recall that's the way to include cards that are not
precisely MCA cards but base on older ISA-designs and are only adopted
to MCA bus and identified with that. They have the IO ports to send a
card-ID ... but the parameter settings are done with generic ISA-style
I/O operations.
Cards may or may not have an EEprom to store the setting or a piece of
software that initializes them during startup.

--
Very friendly greetings from Peter in Germany
http://www.mcamafia.de/

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Reminds me of the Magni VGA Producer, no ADF...

Peter H. Wendt wrote:

Hi !

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0

As far as I recall that's the way to include cards that are not
precisely MCA cards but base on older ISA-designs and are only adopted
to MCA bus and identified with that. They have the IO ports to send a
card-ID ... but the parameter settings are done with generic ISA-style
I/O operations.
Cards may or may not have an EEprom to store the setting or a piece of software that initializes them during startup.

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Flea-Byte item is gone, so I can't even begin to guess on functionality...

Alex wrote:

Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF !
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

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FCCID DBM603248
61-603248
WD95C00VR
WD9510-LR
Bt478KPJ80
512K on board, 4x 28-pin ZIPs, 4 outlines for another 4x
SW1 to set for monitors, etc
Eight fookin' oscillators...
16-bit AVE video.


Louis Ohland wrote:

Flea-Byte item is gone, so I can't even begin to guess on functionality...

Alex wrote:

Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF !
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

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Hi !

Reminds me of the Magni VGA Producer, no ADF...

Well - *technically* MCA allowes barebone I/O operations within the
lower 8-bit adress range, which is a base operation used for
non-intelligent or non-DMA-based interfaces. Even the reading of the systemboard ports to gain the ADF data is a simple I/O operation.
So essentially it is not required to identify a card against the machine
to get it operational.

*However* this is not the way MCA was designed to operate and it cannot
do autoconfiguration and distribute ressources when it has no infos on
what ressorces are already used by "other" cards and interfaces. It is
like operating an early ISA machine with no PnP where you had to
scribble down the I/O ports, interrupts, use of memory space and
suchlike. And run in a pithole or crash the machine if you make an error.

So Non-ADF-cards were unicorns in a way and derived 1:1 from their
ISA-cousins with only adapting them to the MCA connector - just to
"offer something". Someone did quite a lousy job.

--
Very friendly greetings from Peter in Germany
http://www.mcamafia.de/

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On 3/18/25 8:36 AM, Alex wrote:

Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF !
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

Did you try the ones Louis linked? It is the same chipset so there is a
chance it is suitable especially with what Peter wrote.

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https://www.ardent-tool.com/video/WD9500_Chipset.html

Louis Ohland wrote:

FCCID DBM603248
61-603248
WD95C00VR
WD9510-LR
Bt478KPJ80
512K on board, 4x 28-pin ZIPs, 4 outlines for another 4x
SW1 to set for monitors, etc
Eight fookin' oscillators...
16-bit AVE video.

Louis Ohland wrote:

Flea-Byte item is gone, so I can't even begin to guess on
functionality...

Alex wrote:

Louis Ohland <[email protected]> wrote:

Both ADFs are the same.

@8044.ADF - Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044.adf

@8044.ADF - Paradise 8514/A Plus Video Adapter
same card - other brand / rename to @8044.ADF !
http://mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adf/@8044par.adf


Louis Ohland wrote:

Uh, this makes no sense.

Louis Ohland wrote:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/mcabase/mcb/adp/adf/@8044.ADF


AdapterId 8044h

AdapterName "Western Digital Imaging PRO MC Video Adapter"

NumBytes 0


Alex wrote:

PARADISE 8514/A PLUS

So true yet so problematic. Still no @adf found 😞

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