3dfx Rampage ;)
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ROFLMAO.....
yeah it's amazing how noone thought to replace gates with transistors before the Rampage. Oh, i have an even better idea! lets replace all the gates with vacume tubes! just think of how much power that would save too...
obtw Vince, i wasnt really being seriously upset with you. i was just horsing around, as im sure the others were too
BUT, i also noticed the similarities Tagrineth mentioned..... let's see if she can figure out the name i used at x3dfx
ill give you a hint- i used to be very paranoid dillusional, and at one time had some serious issues about FixJack, or "FixedJack" if you remember that fiasco i had about 1 1/2 years go......i just had a CrazyIdea(TM).... what if the NV30 were microcode programmable? remember the biggest advantage to microcode programmability is you can update it, hence make it support new standards / features as they come out (albeit it could slow things down depending on the complexity of the new operations vs power of the core)
Tagrineth said:Merf... oi, Vince, glance at my sig for a split second if you want to know who's a girl.
Because it's like beating a dead horse. We know what happened, we lost our money.. life goes on. This isn't a healthy lifestyle that your exhibiting. I know I'm not the only person that wishes this 3dfx forever banter would just die.
Wow.. do we need to get Geeforcer in here to laugh at you again or what? It's obvious you don't know me in the least - nor do you know much at all. I just went to the amazing place known as x3dfx.com and couldn't find a single search entry of Vince on that board. What gives? What do you have against me? Am I your father or something or what.
Ok, but I'm really getting sick of everytime I make a post on the topic of 3dfx having a pack of 15 year olds jumping all over me. I posted alot more of the stuff you guys drool over under my strait up name of Vince at Fool and Toms - why would I change? it's ridiculous. Now if you don't mind, it's shower time.
Hey, does anyone know what happened to SWE69?
I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that I'm not in this list... don't forget Kristof tooAiluros said:
I posted that here (after deciding to have a bit of fun).Randell said:
There are a whole lot more to "leak" (a wrong word to use, since I'm not talking about slides but email trading sessions with public-and-not-so-public ex-3dfx personnels) but I'm not sure if these stuff are interesting anymore nowadays.
Reverend said:I'm not sure if I should be happy or sad that I'm not in this list... don't forget Kristof too
Yeah, definatly. IIRC, you 'talked' to Gary Tarolli a hell of alot more than I did.
The other Dave [Barron] and Kristoff worked there... heh... why am I on this list again?EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm the "in-the-closet-nVidia-superfan" who was the ringleader of the cybermonkey spies... My bad.
lolActually, the whole gates/transistors thing isn't complete hogwash.
At the lowest level, it is transistors. Transistors are not synonymous with gates, however. Gates are built with transistors (a NAND 'gate' is typically 6 or so transistors).
So yes, a design synthesises to gates, which are then realized by transistors in the layout.
Not that the person who wrote that knew that, but it sounds more like they understood half the story, rather than just making shit up.
At the lowest level, it is transistors. Transistors are not synonymous with gates, however. Gates are built with transistors (a NAND 'gate' is typically 6 or so transistors).
So yes, a design synthesises to gates, which are then realized by transistors in the layout.
Not that the person who wrote that knew that, but it sounds more like they understood half the story, rather than just making shit up.
I am sure no one would mind if you posted some numbers... please.... pretty please.... with sugar on top...Tagrineth said:Ah well, so much for such and such, Bones basically listed everything there is to list about Rampage and SAGE, minus performance... and I'm not talking projected performance either.
RussSchultz said:
That's the thing though: Gates are made with transistors; but apparently (according to Bonehed) Rampage used revolutionary "gateless" technology and only had 18M transistors because "it used transistors instead of gates". That makes about as much sense as a revolutionary wordless book: it only has X amount of letters because all words have been replaced by letters.
Fear [edit]was[/edit] The One, not the two you mentioned. We were talking 50x faster than a V5 6000 with Fear.Fuz said:I am sure no one would mind if you posted some numbers... please.... pretty please.... with sugar on top...Tagrineth said:Ah well, so much for such and such, Bones basically listed everything there is to list about Rampage and SAGE, minus performance... and I'm not talking projected performance either.
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Vince loves those Fear vs. Geforce2 Ultra numbres.
Anyway, there's a lot of people on that "list" and it doesn't really matter. It was really easy to like 3dfx, the company and its people. We had our fun, but now there are plenty of new things to be excited about, no need to keep bashing the same story over and over again.
3dfx - it was fun while it lasted.
The end
Anyway, there's a lot of people on that "list" and it doesn't really matter. It was really easy to like 3dfx, the company and its people. We had our fun, but now there are plenty of new things to be excited about, no need to keep bashing the same story over and over again.
3dfx - it was fun while it lasted.
The end
What about those Q3 shots???
Are there any shots of the card?
And which person shoudl I kill/hold for ransom if I want one?
Right now I'm trying to convince my site to provide me with a Voodoo 5 5500 for an upcomming FSAA roundup ranging from most cards since the GF2 up to the Radeon 9700 Pro (and possibly the nv30 if we can get out pre-production sample in time).
Theres one site that has them in stock at least (white boxed though).
btw, which driver would be the most functional in XP?
I mean there's loads of them, every kid on the block seems to be modding 3dfx-drivers nowadays.
What happened to the "new 3dfx drivers" project that Bayond3D has reported on many times?
Was it closed down? Or what's the link?
Are there any shots of the card?
And which person shoudl I kill/hold for ransom if I want one?
Right now I'm trying to convince my site to provide me with a Voodoo 5 5500 for an upcomming FSAA roundup ranging from most cards since the GF2 up to the Radeon 9700 Pro (and possibly the nv30 if we can get out pre-production sample in time).
Theres one site that has them in stock at least (white boxed though).
btw, which driver would be the most functional in XP?
I mean there's loads of them, every kid on the block seems to be modding 3dfx-drivers nowadays.
What happened to the "new 3dfx drivers" project that Bayond3D has reported on many times?
Was it closed down? Or what's the link?
w.r.t to bicubic doesnt it apply to texture mapping ?
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/advanced96/node7.html
as to wether consumer 3d boards do this , well i don't know
-dave-
http://www.sgi.com/software/opengl/advanced96/node7.html
as to wether consumer 3d boards do this , well i don't know
-dave-
