Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion [2020]

I did Geforce 2MX400 to replace my millenium + power VR setup. And then I swapped to the dark side and went full Radeon (just for the anisotropic filtering man!)

 

I had Amigas from about 1987 onwards, Commodore went under in 1994 but there are a few years where it looked like there would be a management buyout, and with the promise of new PowerPC Amigas with PCI graphics cards I think there was quite a few Amiga die-hards that followed that hope. But in 1998, I saw Half-Life and decided I'd brave Windows 98. I'd played Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake and Quake II but it was Half-Life that swung me from just playing the first opening hour. So good.

 

Environment bump mapping / Dot2 bump mapping, yes.

Basically allowed an indirect texture read, thus it was used for water shaders and chrome balls.
Later Dot3 or proper perpixel lighting made it obsolete. (EMB didn't work with camera rotations well..)

Matrox actually licensed it from Bit boys. (Finnish company behind Pyramid & Glaze 3D)

 

Another defunct company was Raycer Graphics. I got a in person ray-tracing demo of that one in 1998, before Apple bought them in 1999. Guess you could say they got a better deal. LOL Others were Rendition v3300 Redline & GigaPixel Giga3D GP-1.

Tommy McClain

 

Matrox lasted for years in the business market long after they stopped even shipping consumer cards on the back of their excellent VGA quality along with their drivers that made Windows Multi-Monitor work properly by keeping apps, etc on the correct screen between reboots, etc.

 

Matrox was my first graphics card. It didn't have transform & lighting though.

 

Think they also did capture cards too...pretty sure I still have one from when I ripped the whole Parker Lewis Can’t Lose series from various VHS tapes from around the world onto DVD

Edit - yep, I just found the matrox 400 and editing card lol

 

Even on PC, the artistic style and assets look like they transpired from a cheap Hollywood backlot set. And the gameplay is so lackluster...

 

Its not going to win any awards but it is an improvement over Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

Graphically it definitely looks better than almost all or maybe all games with static time of day. This is real high end and already a bit next gen. Additionally it has a lot of destruction and many effects on screen. Unfortunately neither Marvel scenario nor the gameplay convince me.

 

A senior engineer ended up working IT at my high school. He would somewhat begrudgingly hold court for thr Amiga and c64 nerds. Thank god, the math teacher running it before was a Mac head and absolutely incompetent in everything. He had a 64 node AppleTalk network. To give you an idea, a three page English paper could take up to a minute to load

 

Guys are fast.

 

in response to your other question, it looks like ACTIV is running like Ubisoft, different teams will manage their own engine as opposed to consolidating like we saw with EA

 

so the game runs at 30fps on consoles? Seriously?

btw, managed to get super low temperatures -42-44º on F1 2020 at best settings for instance- with the CPU running at 4,075GHz and 1,0625V -passed all the stress test and Flight Simulator, which is a stress test itself, using stock cooler -AMD Wraith Prism-. I am super happy tbh.

 

Macs were pretty rare in British schools back in the 1980s/90s. I can't remember what we had, but I recall the file server used multiple 8" floppy discs for storage. Much of it early programming material back then was based Logo, BASIC and even some COBOL.

 

The company I worked for got a sample gfxcard by the Bitboys during the 90s. I don't recall if they ever tested it but I've never seen it running. We were evaluating gfxchips back then for a product.

Reading the Bitboys's Glaze3d wiki I think the mentioned sample was related to their Infineon deal. Most likely far before this Glaze3d announcement. I think somebody mentioned it was developed by some university students back then.