Re: Matrox Athena BIOS needed

Posted on 2017-02-07, 22:23

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Well its on site under table - download attachments - Bios. But its downloaded by software from memory of computer. Someone told me, that he was succesful even with these. So you might try them... http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/cards/item/203-matrox-is-athena-mga-impression-plus PS: dont forget …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-04, 17:28

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ELSA GLoria-4 - 1995 - price $2990. Based on 1st 3Dlabs chip GLINT 300SX, 4MB VRAM+8MB DRAM. http://i.imgur.com/aOQvp8S.jpg to be clear - you paid $2990? No, that was release price in 1995. Exchanged it for Diamond Viper VLB rev.E Beautiful! I love these multi-chip 3D cards. Time for some …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-02, 00:01

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ELSA GLoria-4 - 1995 - price $2990. Based on 1st 3Dlabs chip GLINT 300SX, 4MB VRAM+8MB DRAM.

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Re: Retro 3D Graphics/CGI Hardware/Software?

Posted on 2017-01-28, 21:20

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The PC world is where it gets complicated, especially the early era. Most importantly: WHAT GPU. There are so many options... And with software too. You can see in attachment results of mine profi cards testing at Dual Athlon MP 2400+ (noone can blame me of cpu limitation :cool: ). Hope that Palcal …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-09, 20:04

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Got some medical use mystery cards (radiology)....sadly Eizo have driver download only for registered users and cannot find any info for Fuji... Eizo VREngine/SMD5-PCI http://i.imgur.com/WRjD8Fh.jpg Fuji DVI01? http://i.imgur.com/5vFqQku.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kCIw7w0.jpg and as bonus i got one card …

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Re: video card driver help Matrox MGA MIL/2C

Posted on 2017-01-06, 12:08

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Also Matrox have them on their site. AMD+Ati/Nvidia should learn from this level of driver support..... http://www.matrox.com/graphics/es/support/drivers/latest/

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Re: What fit on the slot connector on ISA video cards

Posted on 2016-11-28, 20:33

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It is really too bad these MPEG cards weren't more widespread. I will probably never own any unless I make a concerted effort to look through the years. I thought that noone is interested in these. Found some in previous years, but noone interested, so i donated them to fellow collector Palcal. …

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Re: Slowest PCI graphics cards

Posted on 2016-11-28, 20:24

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flash.... really? T.T Sadly haven't found better plugin for showing charts in joomla. You can always use picture only version - http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks There's some more weird stuff there... The CL-GD5460 is the fastest 2D dos card I've ever tested, (it eats S3 cards for …

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Re: Slowest PCI graphics cards

Posted on 2016-11-27, 21:13

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Check mine benchmark part od site - there are some, but not many. Usually because of bugs (Rendition) or aiming purely at Windows performance (Matrox), or they just use for dos separate lowcost chips.... http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/benchmarks/diag-graphic http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/ …

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Re: What fit on the slot connector on ISA video cards

Posted on 2016-11-27, 10:29

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Photo from mine collection - with universal cable - unused connector is for these old type of cards....

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-22, 09:10

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stamasd wrote: Not very retro (yet) […] Show full quote Not very retro (yet) Nice, maybe not so retro, but rare for sure.....and love the colors of heatsink...they used to be so business like on older cards...

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Re: Unacceptable OpenGL Performance

Posted on 2016-10-22, 09:01

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1)grats to the intergraph with optional memory module - don't have any, they are hard to get - almost everyone had version without texture memory because of price - 4MB(+$2,694)/16MB(+$3,394) 2)working on tests of profi cards - most of them are useless for gaming....texture units had not such power …

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Re: Quake ported to Vulkan

Posted on 2016-07-31, 19:14

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Just like when GLQuake was released :) I quote the GLQuake readme: Theoretically, glquake will run on any compliant OpenGL that supports the texture objects extensions, but unless it is very powerfull hardware that accelerates everything needed, the game play will not be acceptable. If it has to go …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-27, 21:33

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brostenen wrote: I know it is an G400 single head. Can someone identify if this is a 32 or 16mb card? Easy one, check sticker on back side - there is G4+ MA32G. G4 = G400, 32G = 32MB RAM.

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Re: Slot 1 CAD Workstation

Posted on 2016-07-25, 12:54

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Btw many profi cards supports only Win NT/2000/XP and mostly only OpenGL - so forget directx games (nvidia, some 3dlabs can do) and you have to stick with GLQuake and similar.... Also these cards are not soo good in games like more common gaming cards...See atachment for quick review of mine tests …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-28, 18:58

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So, what would be the worst and most pathetic piece of graphics adapter back then? (ISA/VLB period) - I mean something that bad that it becomes interesting? That would be the Rendition Verite / V2200 card. Which when used in DOS, is actually a "Decelerator" in that it is so bad for DOOM performance …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-27, 11:34

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XGI Volari Z7 as gift from Rhuwyn, so big thx goin to him. Btw its pure 2D (sold 2005 and later) and power consumption is 1.4W 😎 . Seems to be good for only one thing, you can easily measure with this power consumptions of other cards.

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Re: 3dfx wasn't the first company to put a molex connector on their graphics card

Posted on 2016-06-14, 19:08

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To me its still 3Dfx who did 1st game card with external supply. Because it was reference card. This canopus was non reference design (something like today overclocked editions) limited to one board seller. All our cards are without power supply, so its not needed unlike Voodoo 5 5500. http:// …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-09, 16:19

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http://i.imgur.com/xE4xB8xl.jpg Bought this mono/printer card off of Ebay just a moment ago. Any idea if this thing would support Hercules graphics? I'm having a hard time finding out any info on it. Realtek RTG3100 is the only IC on the board. Looks like classic late hercules model, only missing …

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Re: Best graphics card for dos gaming

Posted on 2016-05-30, 17:02

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For all Virge cards is frequency what counts. With Virge/GX you have higher chance for higher frequency (better memories). Here's some results from mine old tests.... Virge DX (86C375) - 4MB EDO 1cycle 3,5ns memory and clock 50,11Mhz - Eagles DIAG Text - 29,19 MB/s DIAG Graphic - 21,38 MB/s Quake …

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