| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 14 Aug 2000 at 18:05:06 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
hi,
> b) ELbox will soon (15-16 August?) release their Mediator-PCI backplane and
> as soon as drivers appear( the CyberGraphX team is working together with
> ELbox to make drivers) you could use for example Voodoo3/5 and S3 Virge3D cards.
> According to the Mediator page on www.vgr.com/pci a driver for S3 Vrige 4MB
> card allready excist and there will probably be a Permedia2(who would want
> that??:) ) driver to.
the S3 and PermediaII drivers are very quick and easy to write as they
are very close to whats already out there for the C/BVision and CV3D cards.
So, you could buy a very cheap permediaII PCI card (and they are cheap!) and
be 100% compatible to current Amiga games.
Voodoo5 drivers may take some time coming. there'd also have to be some
3dfx-glide -> warp3D driver system written as well (as was to be done with
Paraglide PIV addon)
> So your options are to wait for the G3 cards to appear (read. NEXT YEAR) and
> get a GFX-card that fits straight into it *or* you could keep your BPPC and
> buy the Mediator and get a Voodoo3 wich will outperform the BVPPC easy.
..once drivers are out.
alan