First post, by elianda
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Hello,
maybe someone noticed that AMD recently started their "30 years of graphics and gaming" celebration:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate … nts/amd-30-live
There will also be some livestream on saturday.
These news were also distributed by the german site 3dcenter.org who cited the timeline presentation of AMD:
http://www.3dcenter.org/news/amd-livestream-z … ng-am-23-august
Same can be found on Instagram and Twitter:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AMD30Live&src … ash&mode=photos
http://instagram.com/amd
So as I collect also old cards, I noticed that the "EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder debut" image is taken from my gallery at
http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pictures.html
specifically it is this image: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/ati_vgawonder.jpg
If you zoom in on the larger image from 3dcenter you notice that there is the watermark "enigma" right above the main chip and also the same codings on the chips.
Of course they did not contacted me in advance and I did not knew they used it.
What is much worse is the following fact:
The pictured card is actually a broken one. I have the picture on the gallery in addition to a working VGA Wonder XL. It is actually mentioned in the description in my gallery that the card is broken, as the Quartz and BIOS chip have been removed. So the AMD marketing guys took an image of broken VGA Wonder card for their 30 years celebration event from my gallery in a line with their other best innovations.
Well done AMD, maybe you should have contacted me in advance.
(The email contact is linked on top of the gallery page.)
Regards
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