First Nvidia card

[alexsok]

Anyone recognizes the following card:

Yep boys & girls, this is Nvidia's first video card (the NV1) that as u may recall, failed due to Microsoft not including it's features in DirectX.

 

[DemoCoder]

Even if they included the features, developer's wouldn't like it. Triangles still rule the day.

 

[alexsok]

Even if they included the features, developer's wouldn't like it. Triangles still rule the day.

Yep, Quadratic Texture Maps didn't make it into Direct3D.

On a related note, there is a very intresting article on Nvidia's history (most of u have probably seen it already) here:

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/nvidiahistory/

 

[Dio]

Remember how Sega effectively destroyed themselves in the console market by producing a quad-based console in the Saturn - OK, the Playstation didn't help!

 

[alexsok]

Remember how Sega effectively destroyed themselves in the console market by producing a quad-based console in the Saturn - OK, the Playstation didn't help!

Yep!

It's actually pretty funny, since without Sega that adopted Nvidia's quad-based solution, Nvidia wouldn't be what they are today!

Sega practically saved them!

 

[Ailuros]

SGS Thompson *snicker*

 

[Above]

Oh, I thought we were going to get down to some serious reminiscing... how can you reminisce about a card that never really made it?
Did nvidia produce anything like 3dfx that really creates nostalgia or are those times past?
That picture is too large by the way, can't you cure the size for the use of the proletariat please.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Oh, I thought we were going to get down to some reminiscing... how can you reminisce about a card that never really made it?

Well, it made it as far as my PC. I've still got one knocking around somewhere...

 

[Ailuros]

How was it Dave?

 

[Dave Baumann]

Virtua Fighter and Panzer Draggon were nice, even went and bought a Dreamcast joypad to play them (it came with a DC port). The rest of the games were non-descript...oh, wait... there weren't any other games!

 

[Dave Baumann]

You may also like to note that I supplied FS with the piccy of my board:

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/nvidiahistory/page2.asp

Its knocking around on this server somewhere...

 

[Dio]

Ha! I can beat you all! Not only do I have the extremely rare SMOS card knocking around in our antique box, but there is also, hidden very deep, the original Oak tiled-renderer card...

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Wow...would that be the Oak Warp 5?

And Dave...did you spring for the VRAM version of the Edge?

I do have a Chromatic MPACT reference board floating around somewhere....

 

[Dave Baumann]

I can't remember. I believe there was a 2000 and 3000 series, where the board I got was the 2200, so I guess not.

 

[darkblu]

Ha! I can beat you all! Not only do I have the extremely rare SMOS card knocking around in our antique box, but there is also, hidden very deep, the original Oak tiled-renderer card...

ok, you lead with the score so far. btw, let me see what i've got round here.. mmm, a little, dusty 2mb mystique. it made tomb raider 1 (mystique version) fly on a 100MHz 486.. alas with virtually the same IQ as the sw version. still, when upgraded w/ the 6mb memory upgrade a mystique made a fine 2d desktop card (it was a matrox after all)

 

[RussSchultz]

Aha! I have an old TSENG6000 somewhere, and a Orchid somethingorother 2d card, too.

I think I sold my V2000 (my first 3d card), however.

 

[Dio]

If you want the whole collection of cards I definitely, certainly, have you beat, unless you run a QA lab for a games company

As for making Tomb Raider fly.... well, I did the ATI and S3 ports...

 

[Dio]

Wow...would that be the Oak Warp 5?

It would indeed. Had a nice line in edge antialiasing, which is very easy to do on a tiled renderer, but it didn't have a lot of the hardware-help features that made the PowerVR series 'just work' with code designed for rasterisers.

I've no idea why Oak decided to dump it, probably it was because the market was getting very crowded at that point.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

It would indeed. Had a nice line in edge antialiasing, which is very easy to do on a tiled renderer,

Which is why so many of us bang our heads against the wall and wonder why PowerVR hasn't implemented such a thing in their chips to date...

 

[darkblu]

If you want the whole collection of cards I definitely, certainly, have you beat, unless you run a QA lab for a games company

As for making Tomb Raider fly.... well, I did the ATI and S3 ports...

although all i've seen is the matrox port, kudos for what you did.