Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 19:16:06 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <199801040015.TAA07175@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <1503.883869418@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > To give you the short version this time: I'm interested in playing > with the 3DFX voodoo chipset and buying an add-on board for this (I'd > like to keep my Millenium, so I don't want a complete replacement VGA > card). I've looked around and the major players seem to be Diamond, > with the Monster3D, Orchid with the Righteous 3D and Canopus with the > Pure3D card. Of the 3, the Canopus product seems the most advanced, > with 4MB of texture memory vs the 2MB of the other cards (frame buffer > is still 2MB). It's also fairly cheap at $179 street price, and > definitely seems to be the one to get if you can find one - Canopus > claims back-orders all through January so far. The Canopus is the fastest of the 3 according to Tom's Hardware as well. > Then there's the Voodoo2 chipset which 3DFX claims is 3X faster than > the Voodoo Rush, but I don't see any mfrs actually doing boards based > on them. Any pointers? Last I heard, the voodoo2 was still not due out for another month or so, but it looks like it should be scary fast. > Finally, anyone working on FreeBSD drivers for this so we can play > with Mesa and rendering things at high speed? :-) You're a little behind, amancio's been playing glquake for months :) -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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