Bali 32
The Bali 32 was Western Digital's budget offering of their new 1994 "island" line of Paradise graphics accelerator cards, sold alongside the mid-range Bahamas 64 and premium Barbados 64.
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Released | August 1994 |
| Bus | VESA Local Bus or PCI | |
| Chipset | ARK Logic 1000PV | |
| Standards | MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA | |
| Memory | 1 MB DRAM (32-bit) | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue out) | |
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| Price | At launch: $99 (1 MB) | |
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It was a 32-bit DRAM-based accelerator card for Windows. Based around the ARK Logic 1000PV graphics chipset, it was released in both VESA Local Bus and PCI variants.
It was sold alongside the mid-range Bahamas 32 graphics card (also available in VLB and PCI) which came in 1 MB or 2MB variants of DRAM video memory and retailed for $199. At the top end was the Barbados 64, which was only available in PCI form, but came with 2 MB of VRAM and retailed for $299. All these cards came with Oasis software utilities that enabled picture-in-picture capabilities as well as switching resolutions and refresh rates on the fly.
Western Digital did release a Bali 64 later on (around 1996) which ran on the PCI bus and still came with 1 MB of video memory. it retailed for $79.
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