Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:16:59 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <199801040516.VAA10215@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 1998 23:24:12 EST." <Pine.GSO.3.95.980103231908.26754A-100000@tor-adm1>
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Well, do you have the Canopus working on FreeBSD or for that matter does any have a Canopus working on FreeBSD? >From over here the added circuitry for NTSC or S-Video output perhaps makes a little difficult to support. I took out Jordan from the CC list since he is having problems over there receiving mail from my site. Cheers, Amancio > On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > 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. > > I've got one here (picked one up in Toronto before the current > shortage), and it rocks. It's definitely an advantage running glquake > during net play over those poor slobs still stuck with software > rendering. ;-) The Pure3D has built-in S-video and NTSC output, > which the Monster3D does not. > > > 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? > > None are available yet... I'll probably wait until June next year > before upgrading. It will probably take that long to shake out the > initial Voodoo2 offerings (the Pure3D came out when the Voodoo was 1.5 > years old, but it was worth the wait). id reports an incredible 62 > fps with two pre-production Voodoo2 boards on a PII-300 at 1024x768, > running the Quake2 timedemo. > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >
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