It's not fast. Apparently it is faster than the IBM PGC it is a clone of though. This is running on a 10 MHz 286.
Very nice, thanks you!
I also own this card
PGA - Matrox PG-640A
But I think I didnt find that demo on the driver disks. Where is it from?
Predator99 wrote on Today, 11:37:Very nice, thanks you! […]
Very nice, thanks you!
I also own this card
PGA - Matrox PG-640ABut I think I didnt find that demo on the driver disks. Where is it from?
What driver disks do you have? Are we allowed to link to driver software? The demo's in pg640_drivers.zip which is actually just demos and utilities. I haven't tried everything in there yet, that is "demo.bat".
There are a lot of drivers etc. for the next generation of these boards (PG-641, 1281) but they are not compatible. Those are more just regular TIGA boards + 3D. I'd love to find documentation for how to program them.
The 640 and 1280 are IBM PGC clones and we do have full documentation for them.
Actually we do have more programming information than I thought. Possibly for this whole era of Matrox cards. I'll update after I have a chance to look it over.
thisisamigaspeaking wrote on Today, 10:25:It's not fast. Apparently it is faster than the IBM PGC it is a clone of though. This is running on a 10 MHz 286.
Wow, that is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to record and upload a video of that.
I just browsed the manual, and it's very cool to see so much about the card's basic 3D acceleration in there. I know not many people would be able to appreciate it in real-time on real hardware, but it would be interesting if someone put together a very simple 3D game that is actually accelerated by such an old card. I wonder how it works with an original 8088 at 4.77Mhz...
