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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-29, 04:01

Stiletto wrote on 2020-10-28, 17:39: Will happily take the rest when you've the time. I had not offered them yet 😀 - I need to see if he's okay with me giving them out - some of them are for unreleased chips during their last days.

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 03:58

by furan

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Stiletto wrote on 2020-10-29, 01:05: [EDIT] Hmm http://www.zaptech.com/commentary/3dlabs/faq/ … phire2SXsupport The reference design has broken DMA (at least according to USENET). So I would imagine it's some tweak around that.

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 23:40

by furan

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Fujitsu Sapphire 2SX is also 300SX-based and may have more useful drivers or someone may have that card. http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?f ... enustate=0 It also has the same PCI VID/PID so any drivers you fine should be able to be applied just fine.

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 20:11

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Try with the EPROM removed. It might actually be an option ROM and it might have MIPS code that locks up when run as x86.

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 12:24

by furan

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I don't see how CyberSpeed could work... I also don't see how/why your 300SX card would not work... :) It's not like MIPS had their own PCI specification, or 3Dlabs made a MIPS-only version of the 300SX. I imagine it will work fine, but you'll have to swap your VGA cable between it and the VGA card. …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:53

by furan

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Could it be that the Cyberspeed demo acceleration is only working on a 3Dlabs 300SX? Cyberspeed was announced in press releases to include support for the 3D Blaster VLB. I'd imagine that the developers would use 3DLabs 300SX boards during development or prototype 3D Blaster VLBs. Seems at some …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:32

by furan

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The GameSDK release is earlier than the "DirectX 1.0" that I have. I took a look and there's no 3D Blaster driver in there. No GLiNT 300SX driver either.

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:21

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

I came across a post on Google Groups from jan 96 with a user asking for help with DirectDraw calling RealityLabs functions. This was from the Windows 95 Game SDK. Haven't been able to find it on archive.org. Do you have this SDK or earlier DirectX SDK's we could check out for a driver? The only …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 10:43

by furan

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Nice work furan! I looked through the timestamps in the Cyberspeed demo, they are from 26th of October 1995. That is roughly when the 3D Blaster VLB was released to the public. Did you check the original 1.0 driver shipped with the card? http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=824&menustate=0 …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 09:22

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Unfortunately it is not that simple. I'm always test addon 3D cards with a 2nd monitor, I did so now, and as soon as the conflict with the VGA has gone Creative driver has loaded and the Windows desktop has comed up on the 2nd monitor! The 1st monitor plugged on to the VGA card has no signal! So …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 07:53

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Yep I typed the version number from memory :] It is exactly: CGL Revision 1.6a config.png By the way, I was hoping that since the GiGi drivers have a chip type lookup that includes the 300SX, that one of them might have code for a PCI bus device, but it does not look like any of them make PCI BIOS …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 06:05

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

I randomly asked one of the 3Dlabs employees if they had any info on Gaming Glint pinout, and they gave me their datasheet collection. It does not contain Gaming Glint, but the Glint 300SX, 500TX, and MX are all pin compatible with each other, so it could be that GiGi is close to that. They use a …

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 03:26

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

I would like to find this card. The Omnicomp 3Demon: 3demon.png From: omnicmp@phoenix.phoenix.net (OmniComp Graphics) Subject: GLINT - 3DEMON FAQ (1/1) Date: 3 Feb 1995 18:57:22 GMT The 3DEMON by Omnicomp is a PCI-bus 3D accelerator, based on the GLINT 300SX chip from 3Dlabs. Omnicomp began shipping …

Re: The AT cases with built-in stereo speakers thread!

Posted on 2020-10-28, 03:13

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi everyone! During this month I was able to buy next 3 cases and still waiting for one more (case4.png). Sorry for the quality of the photo. I will upload more detailed photos after cleaning procedures. Wow! Your collection rivals mine! Nice. Yes, please post photos and if you can, let us know …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 02:14

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Just another update - the GiGi driver that is part of the RenderMorphics engine does not make VXD calls, it is using GDI ExtEscape() calls with service value 0x3D3D to communicate with the driver via the driver DrvEscape(). If it fails, it will pop a message box with a title of "Glint" saying "Can't …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 00:16

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Furan, any good tips to make sure that Cyberspeed is actually getting accelerated? Many games default to softwarerender if the acceleration is not working/detected and it can be very hard or almost impossible to visually tell software render apart from any acceleration on the 3D Blaster. You also …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-28, 00:06

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

Are GiGi CGL drivers make VXD calls? Really strange, I was sure about CGL drivers are DOS only. This is surprising. Are all GiGi CGL do VxD calls, even the linked-in-binary CGLs too? Thanks for the driver, today I try to make the first test. I can only confirm that the 1.67 linked-in GiGi driver …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-27, 02:57

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One more ugly-beautiful pc for cleaning. I like the inverted tower designs (having the drives on the bottom instead of the top). We didn't get many of those in generic AT/ATX here in the states. I think maybe Compaq or Digital made a machine or two like that, but they are a rarity. Very nice! I …

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2020-10-26, 20:02

by furan

in Marvin \ Video

I looked back into my notes and I thought I had tested Cyberspeed on 3D Blaster VLB, but I think it didnt happen. Its a Windows 95 game and I had trouble getting my 3D Blaster working in Win95. This has to be the only Win95 game that have 3D Blaster VLB support. Also support seems to only be …

Re: IBM 486SLC2 - cache info

Posted on 2020-10-25, 22:56

by furan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah, thanks!

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

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Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Glint 300SX 3D accelerator, interchangable between platforms?

Re: The AT cases with built-in stereo speakers thread!

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

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