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I would try to circle back to every hanging question I'd ever come up with if given enough time. And when it's "research" stuff like this, I even try to keep a few notes as a "to-do" for later. My hard drives are strewn with hundreds of these little (and not so little) textfiles :) Important to...

Since I cannot edit my post... I popped into the "Pixel Talk" Discord this evening and someone idling ("PancakePuppy") coughed up this further information: - thedodgegarage says that Akebia had a TMS34020-based card called "Stride" with an available Toshiba TC8512 add-on card but can't find any...

And just when you think you've heard of all mid-90s 3D chips, here's the Toshiba TC8512 Gouraud Shading Processor: SKUs: TC8512G, TC8512YM. AKA "TC8512G/YM". Nicknames seem to be "HSP" or "HSP-1", short for "High Speed Shading Processor" or maybe "High Speed graphics Processor"...

Found my guys who'd know: https://jaehyek.github.io/about/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seong-park-117b1921/ "KS82C614/615(2D/3D Graphics Accelerator): Black Dragon" hmm... Also found a fellow brother-in-arms: https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/ol … -design.144013/...

Found this tonight, though I'm not really sure what I'm looking at. Perhaps it was manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor on behalf of Samsung, or perhaps they acquired it...

kjliew tracked down the Matrox Simple Interface (MSI) SDK (Windows 95 ver 1.10, DOS ver 1.06) for Matrox Mystique / Mystique 220 (MGA-1064SG/MGA-1164SG) http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=794 http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=795

Also, uploaded the S3 MeTaL collection that SavageNews.com had uploaded back in the day (and which swaaye mentioned last year) to VOGONSDrivers, extracted from The Internet Archive. http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=726 *Still missing: S3 MeTaL Driver 9x/ME 1.0.0.0R2 -...

Reading metal.h, it does not call OpenGL or Direct3D. so... yes, to me it looks more like a full-fledged API rather than some extension to OpenGL or something? So I stand corrected: It looks pretty complete to me. I'm seeing more than just texture compression and handling, there's a lot in here...

Wait, csfix doesn't work? There's plenty of evidence that it does?! Haven't tried it myself... http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3662359/Re:_Crimson_Skies_on_Windows_7#Post3662359 http://www.gog.com/forum/general/crimson_skies_1...

Thought I'd add: yes, that means he basically made his own WineD3D from the Wine project, it just wraps to Direct3D 11 instead. It's still early days though and is going to need a lot of testing.

I thought I would bump this to mention this: Dege just released dgVoodoo 2.4 (which is a Glide wrapper which wraps 3dfx Glide 2.1x, Glide 2.4x and Glide 3.x to Direct3D 11 (requiring Direct3D 10.1 hardware)). Well, the relevant news is: First version of DirectX 5, 6 and 7 support is added. So...

It has been brought to my attention that an S3 MeTaL header (metal.h) and library (metal.lib) are included within the Deux Ex SDK available here: http://www.moddb.com/games/deus-ex/downloads/sdk-v1112fm

Alternate revisions, meant to say. Imagination Technologies was pretty nice to upload the PowerVR Series 1 SDK from 2000-05-02 for enthusiasts and hobbyists for a specific hobbyist to redistribute last year (and since taken it offline again in some website reorganization), and I'm sure...

The NVidia NV1 Windows 95 Multimedia Accelerator Software Development Kit 1.50 has been leaked by an anonymous source. Since then, it has been uploaded to VOGONSDrivers: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=706 Includes NVLIB. Fairly high-level SDK, not much hardware info to be...

For those who don't remember the old discussions on the Hercules Thriller Conspiracy or the Fujitsu "FGX-1"/"Pinolite" MB86242: “Fujitsu Develops World’s First Three Dimensional Geometry Processor,” press release, Fujitsu Fujitsu press release 1997-0139, July 2, 1997...