| From: | Adrian Parsons |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2000 at 01:56:48 |
| Subject: | Re: G3 & CGFX |
--- Alan Buxey <alanb@ftfir.mols.sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
Yeah but want one of the G3 cars supposed to have 3 or
4
PCI slots??? cheap & fast LAN 3DFX not to mention
sound cards!!
Why dont they do a driver for Matrox cards Amiga has
a stratigic partnership with them & I sell new G200's
for $50 Australian I'm sure I could find myself a pci
card & it is 2d/3D & not too slow either!!
-Panthro ...I ready for Unreal Tornament on Amiga
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