ATI All In Wonder
Introduced in November 1996 and designed for Windows 95, the All-In-Wonder series of cards combined a graphics card with a TV tuner card in one.
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Released | Mid-1997 |
| Bus | AGP 2x | |
| Chipset | ATi 3DRage | |
| Standards | VGA and SVGA | |
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| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue) | |
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| Price | 1997: $250 (All-in-Wonder) July 1997: $191 (All-in-Wonder) |
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They started with the use of the 3DRage chipset, but later used the Radeon chipset. The All-In-Wonder name was used on such combo cards from 1996 up to 2008.
ATi sold All-in-Wonders in the following configurations before using the same 'All-in-Wonder' moniker with a Radeon core:
- 1998: All-in-Wonder 3D Rage Pro Turbo (AGP 2x)
- 1998: All-in-Wonder 3D Rage Pro (PCI)
- 1999: All-in-Wonder 128 (Rage 128, AGP 2x)
- 1999: All-in-Wonder 128GL (Rage 128GL, PCI)
- 1999: All-in-Wonder 128 Pro (Rage 128 Pro, AGP 2x)
Board Revisions
Competition
In the Media
"ATI All-IN-WONDER is the 7-in-1 graphics, TV and multimedia solution for PC, delivering 3D, 2D and video acceleration with an intelligent TV tuner, video capture and TV display. It is designed exclusively for Microsoft Windows95(tm)**.
You'll enjoy outstanding 3D performance while playing games or adding 3D elements to design or multimedia projects. Plus get awesome 2D performance, ultra-high resolution, full-motion video and the ability to play games or do presentations on a big screen TV. The TV tuner lets you zoom in on the action, capture video from your TV or camcorder, watch PC video clips while still offering fast graphics.
ALL-IN-WONDER will even watch TV for you, unattended."
ATI, 1997
You'll enjoy outstanding 3D performance while playing games or adding 3D elements to design or multimedia projects. Plus get awesome 2D performance, ultra-high resolution, full-motion video and the ability to play games or do presentations on a big screen TV. The TV tuner lets you zoom in on the action, capture video from your TV or camcorder, watch PC video clips while still offering fast graphics.
ALL-IN-WONDER will even watch TV for you, unattended."
ATI, 1997
"Armed with 16 MB of 105 MHz SDRAM and a 250 MHz RAMDAC, the All-in-Wonder 128 updates ATI's everything-to-everyone line of videocards. This burly board packs a cable-ready stereo TV tuner, a Brooktree video decoder, and ATI's own ImpactTV2 chip for high-quality TV-out. All the audio/video inputs have been moved to a breakout box that connects to the back of the card, while a DIN cable takes care of TV-out and audio-out to your soundcard.
While the All-in-Wonder's 3D rendering abilities put is solidly on middle ground, it dominates the 2D world. ATI's new multimedia center has cool new features, including a DVD player that kicks out crisp, full-screen video playback, an intelligent TV tuner with instant replay and zoom control, and a digital VCR that does on-the-fly video capture and compression, including MPEG-2 - the first videocard we've seen that does this. Of course, you need a Pentium III to pull this off, and the card couldn't actually capture at 320 x 240 without dropping frames. We had to drop to 176 x 144 to get reliable MPEG-2 captures.
Standard AVI capture is strong, however, sucking down 640 x 480 resolutions without a single hiccup."
ATI, 1997
While the All-in-Wonder's 3D rendering abilities put is solidly on middle ground, it dominates the 2D world. ATI's new multimedia center has cool new features, including a DVD player that kicks out crisp, full-screen video playback, an intelligent TV tuner with instant replay and zoom control, and a digital VCR that does on-the-fly video capture and compression, including MPEG-2 - the first videocard we've seen that does this. Of course, you need a Pentium III to pull this off, and the card couldn't actually capture at 320 x 240 without dropping frames. We had to drop to 176 x 144 to get reliable MPEG-2 captures.
Standard AVI capture is strong, however, sucking down 640 x 480 resolutions without a single hiccup."
ATI, 1997
Setting it Up
There is no hardware configuration required for the All In Wonder.
Downloads
Operation Manual Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
Original Utility Disk Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
VGA BIOS ROM Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
All-in-Wonder CD-ROM The original CD that came bundled with the AIW card. Includes drivers plus Macromedia Director and MGI Photosuite SE. (Games not included for copyright reasons) |
