Barbados 64
The Barbados 64 was Western Digital's premium graphics card, sold as part of their new 1994 "island" line of Paradise graphics accelerator cards which also comprised the budget Bali 32 and mid-range Bahamas 64.
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Released | August 1994 |
| Bus | PCI | |
| Chipset | S3 Vision964 (86C964) | |
| Standards | MDA, Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA | |
| Memory | 2 MB VRAM | |
| Ports | 15-pin DSUB (RGB analogue out) | |
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| Price | At launch: $299 | |
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It was a 64-bit VRAM-based accelerator card for Windows, based around the S3 86C964 graphics chipset.
It was sold alongside the budget Bali 32 and mid-range Bahamas 32 graphics card, both of which were available in VLB and PCI). 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.
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Original Utility Disk Get in touch if you can provide this missing item! |
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