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Video Electronics Ltd ARDG2 Videographics Expansion Card

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Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion card

The Video Electronics Videographics Expansion card is a double board construction.

VEL ARDG2 Videographics Expansion Card Base top

Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion base card (top)

VEL ARDG2 Videographics Expansion card back

Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion base card (back)

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Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion base card (bottom)

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Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion card daughterboard (top)

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Video Electronics Ltd Videographics Expansion card daughterboard (bottom)

The ArVis Videographics Expansion card enhances the graphics display of the Archimedes. The card includes a real-time colour frame-grabber to digitise live colour video inputs, a 384K video framestore with 16 bit levels and a dedicated RGB dispay output with dynamic switching between the Archimedes and the framestore images.

The ArVis Videographics Expansion card interconnects, via ribbon cables, to the ArVis Videocontroller/Genlock Expansion card mounted on a 4 slot backplane.

Here is the Arvis ARDG2 Videographics Expansion Card product description.
Here is the ArVis Hardware and Installation Details manual.

The ArVis Videographics Expansion card came with a WIMP based application called OSCAR which gave the user full editting control of the digitised image and image plane switching. I do not have the software.