what the hell is that card? dayum! and i thought my Videologic 928 Movie was an odd card (it does MPEG-1 decoding on ISA)
I finally purchased a PS/2 to Atari-ST mouse adaptor, leading me to dig out my Atari 520STFM! Running the sysinfo program at the moment. Yes, it's on the floor... 
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I don't have any actual games for it, but I have about 20 various 'ST FORMAT' magazine demo discs with demos of various games including 'Invaders', Civilization, and Elite! Need a joystick though.
I am testing some old cards and once again I am scratching my head after using an ATi Rage. I have a rather basic low-profile card with a BIOS sticker that says R128P, a silk-screened logo that says "Powered By ATi Rage 128 ULTRA" and the system detects it as a Rage 128 Pro 4x AGP 16MB. The clock speeds according to powerstrip are 130/130. Everything I see online says that this should be a Rage 128 Ultra... but that the Ultra is always 128bit. Which seems... not true. This card has two memory chips with two additional spots left empty. It actually matches the card on this page, which says it has 64bit DDR, but that seems to be incorrect.
And yet, when I play an older 3D game on it for testing (Jedi Knight 2 Mysteries of the Sith demo, in particular) it seems ridiculously fast compared to other cards I've been testing. Other non-Nvidia\non-3dfx cards from the late 90s seem to barely be usable in this game at 640x480, and yet this card blows through it at whatever resolution I set it to. Evan at 1600x1200 it is still running better than several of the weaker cards did at 640x480. This just seems surprisingly potent for a basic card with 64bit memory.
So, just to check myself... It has two of these memory chips. I see that it is 512kbit x 32bit x 4 banks... so does that mean that it absolutely has to have a 64bit memory bus? There is no way that it's 128bit, because the two chips are only 32bit each... correct?
This is just a sanity check. Apparently once you've played on several different S3 Virge, Matrox Millennium 2, SIS 6326 and Trident 3DImage9850 cards, even a budget card from a year or two later feels like running a Geforce 2.
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what the hell is that card? dayum! and i thought my Videologic 928 Movie was an odd card (it does MPEG-1 decoding on ISA)
It is a professional graphics card intended for 3D and CAD work in Windows NT. Despite its looks, it is laughably slow for real time 3D graphics, though to be fair I haven't had a chance to test it myself in a proper Windows NT environment running an OpenGL game. It's powered by the much improved descendants of the GLiNT chip on the Creative Graphics Blaster VLB, which was really unique and is super collectible now but was... very slow.
Around this same time the single chip Permedia 2 would basically have all of the normal "non professional" 3D capabilities of this card, as well as proper DOS support (so it didn't need a separate S3 chip). The late 90s were interesting times for gaming and professional 3D markets, for sure. 😀
