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Title: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: soviet on September 02, 2008, 03:39:41 PM

Hello, i have an amiga 4000 and a Matay Prometheus pci board.
Recently i change the voodoo 3 2000 for a voodoo 4 4500.
Now when the machine startup the video output is aga.
When i go to picasso prefs i see no screen modes, and say "no board attached on the menu".
If i run a prometheus pci scan tool, i get the voodoo 3 4500 information.

This get me to discovery another problem, the matay prometheus web site don't work any more and i have lost the prometheus drivers cd.

So.
A: where i can get the prometheus software drivers and picasso96

B: How i can configure the voodoo 4 4500 ?.

Thanks.

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: zipper on September 02, 2008, 05:00:59 PM

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This get me to discovery another problem, the matay prometheus web site don't work any more and i have lost the prometheus drivers cd.

A: where i can get the prometheus software drivers and picasso96

B: How i can configure the voodoo 4 4500 ?.

A: http://web.archive.org/web/20041205134655/www.matay.pl/developer/en/
but P96 2.1b has been removed long time ago.
B: You have to change the gfxaddress, it isn't the same in 4500 as in 2000/3000.

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: soviet on September 02, 2008, 05:53:36 PM

Thanks, for the webarchive link i don't now that webarchive also store linked files.

I still need picasso96 :(.

How i change the gfx address ?
Also how i now what gfx address i must use ?

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: arnljot on September 02, 2008, 06:19:00 PM

This page (http://amiga.serveftp.net/) has the P96 archive on its download page (http://amiga.serveftp.net/downloads.html)

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: zipper on September 02, 2008, 06:23:31 PM

Well, forgot it, even have it bookmarked...

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: zipper on September 02, 2008, 06:46:38 PM

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How i change the gfx address ?
Also how i now what gfx address i must use ?

It should happen automatically during the install process, don't remember the value. PrmScan/PromInfo should show it .

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: soviet on September 03, 2008, 04:10:44 PM

I'm almost there i can get videooutput the test look fine but when i press the use but it look bad and corrupted.
Also now i get a guru when i boot, and to get the modes recognised i have to go to devs:monitors and dubleclick the prometheus monitor. I don't now why don't load at startup.

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: zipper on September 03, 2008, 06:28:08 PM

Have you done the Prometheus update 2.5 and installed the latest Voodoo update, both from Wayback/Matay?

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: soviet on November 10, 2008, 04:10:12 PM

I have go back to the old voodoo 3000 card.
Now all the problems are gone.
I don't now why but the amiga don't seems to like the voodoo 4 card.
thanks.

Title: Re: How to install voodoo 4 4500 Matay Prometheus driver site down
Post by: zipper on November 10, 2008, 05:19:57 PM

As they both (3000 and 4500) have the same default clock, they are equally fast - except 4500 is slower on 2D as the driver doesn't support hardware acceleration on 4500, at least not on all functions where 3000 is supported. It's principally written for 3000 and just happens to work with 4500 - probably after some tweaking. On very big game screens (principally unplayable) 4500 may give ½-1 fps more.