Re: Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2016-03-23, 22:41

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More: Whatever the Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card is, it's something that works in quads. Supposedly, QuickDraw3D / RAVE is all quads. And it can do true perspective rather than affine perspective. That might narrow the field down, i.e. not 3dfx. Something similar to nVidia NV-1 perhaps, or …

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Re: looking for old software

Posted on 2016-03-23, 22:32

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Moved.

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Re: Have I got a zebra-case for you guys!

Posted on 2016-03-23, 20:45

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At the bottom of every page at VOGONS: This site hosts no abandonware. There is no material that is knowingly illegal here. ... This disclaimer is brought to you thanks to the BSA. So, no. However, you mentioned dgVoodoo2. Dege, its creator, has an account on VOGONS and may be able to give you some …

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Re: Dakar Rally for Windows 95 (Japanese only PC game)

Posted on 2016-03-23, 19:21

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Davros wrote: "for my complete PC rally games collection" Do you have a list ? Have you even seen all the racing game threads he's started in The Guide (DOS/Windows) over the last 13 years? 😁

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-23, 04:02

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Lord Nightmare is curious: Lord Nightmare wrote: did anyone find a Votalker IB card, or the uber-rare Votalker IB 2000? These are speech synth cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votrax#Official

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-22, 21:02

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Or you could make a second sheet and move the unproven ones there... 😉

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Re: Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2016-03-22, 19:45

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swaaye wrote: Interesting. I figured you guys would like this. 😉 swaaye wrote: I also wonder how many cards supported this QuickDraw 3D thing. Wikipedia makes the API sound painful like D3D 3 / D3D retained mode. Dunno. I was listmaking back in my 3D API research days but I don't think I got very …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-22, 19:27

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They actually WERE hosted on imgur, he just didn't choose the "generate Thumbnail code" option (actually it looks like they have moved this feature somewhere) - FIXED. 😁

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2016-03-22, 18:29

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Myloch wrote: vetz wrote: - Wipeout and Assault Rigs on ATI 3D Rage (now also works with a wrapper) Wait a moment...what wrapper? 😳 You mean Tuxality's (still in alpha) projects? glRage, probably: https://github.com/ata4/glrage / https://github.com/ata4/glrage/releases

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-22, 18:17

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I separated out a few of the wavetable entries, people may want to update their entries. Also added that "The Entertainer" board. To repeat what's been said: Entries still to be added that were mentioned in this thread: - Yamaha SW60XG The Yamaha SW60XG was there originally but was removed as the …

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-22, 17:52

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I separated out a few of the wavetable entries, people may want to update their entries. Also added that "The Entertainer" board. To repeat what's been said: Entries still to be added that were mentioned in this thread: - Creative AWE64gold2 - DynaSonix 3D (not pro) - Logitech Soundman Games - …

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Re: Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2016-03-22, 17:20

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texas instruments, but cant find specifics; there were many of these it seems and they probably just take data from RAM and spit out the product into RAM again, which may be slow; I'm a little less concerned with the TI chip and more concerned with the chip above it which displays no logo aside …

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Re: Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2016-03-22, 17:03

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Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2016-03-22, 16:34

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"Lord Nightmare" brought my attention to this 3D accelerator card for the mid-late 90's Mac: http://www.forcedperfect.net/hardware/cards/applequickdraw3dcard/ http://appletechlab.jp/blog-entry-926.html Supposedly shipped November 1995. also known as "White Magic" Board. This could use some …

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Re: I've got the OPL3 synth from a CMI8738 working in Windows 7 x64

Posted on 2016-03-22, 15:50

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MaliceX wrote: Hi. Just necroposting Seven days since the last reply in the thread? Hardly. 😀

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-22, 01:55

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Moved some more posts over from the other thread. :D Besides the PC Mockinboard that Trixter mentioned there's also the precursor to the (presumably) Innovation SSI-2001 card, The Entertainer. This is a card that was mentioned in the game Gunship documentation and apparently is supported by 2 games …

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Re: Can't select DMA 1 in CTCU on ibm 486

Posted on 2016-03-21, 23:41

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Moved.

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2016-03-21, 18:20

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bristlehog wrote: easy_john wrote: spreadshit Come on! You don't want people laughing their asses off when trying to imagine such a thing. Actually, I've filed that one away for use the next time I personally want to vent mental diarrhea upon Google Docs. 😁 "Here's a spreadshit for you guys" 😁

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-03-21, 18:15

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VEG: A little off-topic: Windowed-mode Glide was VERY uncommon if not impossible back in the Voodoo2/Rush/Banshee days. It inspired the creation of a "wrapper" (so to speak) called WinGlide, look it up: http://www.falconfly.de/tools.htm - it's more like D3DWindower and DxWnd but circa 1998-2000. …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-03-17, 20:18

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Their plans for the future at the time... Voodoo Rush is actually a very early card. Bet that's gone in a Voodoo3-era reference? 😉

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