Orchid Technology
Orchid was a graphics card and sound card manufacturer for the IBM PC and its compatibles.
It was acquired by Micronics, the motherboard manufacturer in August 1994.
Pro Designer II / IIs The ProDesigner IIs provides up to 32768 colours with its 1 MB video RAM and if the Sierra HC RAMDAC is installed. Maximum resolution is 1024 x 768. It is one of those rare cards that will work in either an 8-bit or 16-bit ISA or EISA slot, with auto-detection to switch to 8 or 16-bit data transfer speeds. User Manual More images: 1
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Celcius/VLB
Based on IIT's AGX015 graphics processor. Supports up to 90 Hz flicker-free refresh rates, 16.8 million colours, and resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 (in 16 colours non-interlaced). User Manual
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Kelvin 64 / EZ
The Kelvin EZ is a 32-bit version of Kelvin, supporting resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 and colours up to 16.8 million. Kelvin 64 was the first affordable 64-bit graphics accelerator available for ISA, VESA Local Bus and PCI.
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Fahrenheit 1280
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Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 Maximum resolution is 1600 x 1200 and supports refresh rates up to 120 Hz.
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Fahrenheit 64
Displays 16.8 million colours at a resolution of 800 x 600 (2 MB cards only). Highest resolution is 1280 x 1024. Refresh rates up to 75 Hz.
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Righteous 3D
The Righteous 3D was a licenced build of the 3dfx Voodoo 3D graphics accelerator. |
Fahrenheit Pro64
Maximum resolution is 1280 x 1024. Supports high speed horizontal and vertical acceleration in all display modes. Displays 16.8 million colours at a resolution of 1024 x 768. Refresh rates up to 120 Hz.
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Kelvin Video64
Display resolution up to 1600 x 1200, colour depth up to 16.7 million colours, |
Kelvin MPEG
Video playback up to 1280 x 1024 at 30 frames per second in 24-bit colour. |
Fahrenheit Video 3D
3D graphics accelerator features Bi-Linear and Tri-Linear filtering, MIP mapping and Gouraud shading, perspective correction, video texture mapping, depth cueing and fogging, alpha blending and Z-buffering. Maximum display resolution is 1600 x 1200. |
Sound Cards
Sound Producer
Supports Ad Lib and Sound Blaster.
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Sound Producer Pro
Launched: 1992 Supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster Pro II, Disney Sound Source and Covox Speech Thing. The Orchid Sound Producer Pro is a rebadged Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro.
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GameWave
FM synthesizer: ? Rich Heimlich said this of the GameWave: "A less expensive and less impressive version of the SoundWave 32. In this case, that's not a very good thing.". It scored 2 out of 10 for digital quality and 1 out of 10 for music quality.
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SoundDrive 16
Launched: 1994 Supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, and Microsoft Windows Sound System.
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GameWave 32Launched: 1994 Supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, General MIDI, Roland MPU-401 interface and Roland MT-32. GameWave 32 has over 2 MB of samples onboard. Sony and Mitsumi CD-ROM interfaces.
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GameWave 32 Plus
Launched: 1994
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NuSound PnP 32
Launched: 1995 Features plug and play compatibility, Spatializer 3D audio technology.
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SoundWave 32
Launched: 1994 Supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, Microsoft Sound System, General MIDI, Roland MPU-401 interface and Roland MT-32. SoundWave 32 has 2 MB of samples onboard. |
SoundWave 32
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SoundWave 32+SCSI / 32Pro SCSI / 32+Studio
Launched: 1994 Supports Ad Lib, Sound Blaster, Microsoft Windows Sound System, General MIDI, and Roland MPU-401 interface. Has 2 MB of samples onboard (a total of 56 wavetable synthesis voices). Comes with SCSI-2 and Mitsumi CD-ROM drive interfaces. The 32+Studio is the same as 32+SCSI and 32Pro SCSI, but adds Orchid's WaveBooster 4FX high-quality wavetable synthesizer card, which features 4 MB of ROM samples, built-in digital effects such as reverb, chorus, and is compatible with GS (General Synthesizer) specification. |
SoundWave 32 with InVision
FM synthesizer: ? Rich Heimlich said this of the SW32 w/InVision: "A very competent entry level card if you want better sound but you get what you pay for which in this case means a low quality patch set and poor SB/FM compatibility.". He scored it 3 out of 10 for digital quality and 2.5 out of 10 for music quality. |