First Nvidia card
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Joe DeFuria said:
Yeah, I bet. I still have my Oak Warp 5 reference board, but I believe it is one of the casualties from my storage unit getting floaded.
None of those boards are near as old as my Paradise Tasmania 3D PCI board. It was the _FIRST_ PCI 3D only card. Just wished I could have gotten a 3D Blaster VLB when I worked at Creative. Oh well. At least I got an original Rendition Verite 1000 reference board using a red PCB.
Joe DeFuria said:
So that's where my board went to. LOL
You still have some of my other boards too. Good thing JPA or the manufacturers didn't want them back. Now if I could just remember if I ever got a Voodoo5 and what happened to it.Tommy McClain
Dio said:OK, you got me beat
LOL!
In the graphics business people consider me an old fogey. I believe I started the first 3D graphics web site when "Tommy and Biff's 3D Accelerator Page" went online on Oct. 18 1995. My life was never the same after that, but I would not change a single thing.Tommy McClain
Joe DeFuria
Legend
Hey, The "Average Joe" thing was me. And it's really funny you should bring that up....(Though no, it has nothing to do with B3D.)
And it's really funny you should bring that up....(Though no, it has nothing to do with B3D.)Gunhead said:Hey, it's Tommy McClain of Dimension3D fame!
Can't you continue Average Joe on B3D?
Hey, man, glad to hear that not everybody has forgotten about me.
As for the old guide, you let the cat out of the bag way too soon.
I've got some new ideas, but I'm looking for some help before I go any further with it. If anybody has any ActiveX, JavaScript, etc. programming skills and wants to volunteer to help me out, then send me an email or PM. Thanks!Tommy McClain
Joe DeFuria said:Hey, The "Average Joe" thing was me.
Yeah, really funny.
And I agree nothing to do with B3D. It's too early to even consider a web site for my ideas, but you never know. Tommy McClain
DaveBaumann said: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!
Don't you mean Saturn? The DC was quite a ways off at that time.
Gosh, I guess we can be in a rather exclusive club. What I really appreciated was the fact that Core's code was well structured and quite easy to read.Dio said: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...
(A pity the same could not be said for the code produced by another games company (who shall remain nameless) which we were going to port to PowerVR at the same time. It was utterly hideous and so we just gave up).
I think the best parts were implementing the "water fog" and actually "testing" the game
MrFloopy said:
Now that really helps to put things in perspective. For the young people without those memories that whine about $500 video card releases. If you're not old enough to afford them, maybe you should... wait? How do you cope when you gaze up at the jars in the candy store?
DaveBaumann said: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!
Don't you mean Saturn, because DC didn't come out until like 2 years ago and this must have been waaaay back?
megadrive0088
Regular
The NV1 was in the Edge 3D from Diamond, correct? one of the first PC 3D cards, along with the original Creative 3D Blaster (GLINT based)
IIRC.
What about the NV2, the one that Nvidia never talks about, that's the one that Sega was helping to fund I believe. was that ment for the console market?
IIRC.
What about the NV2, the one that Nvidia never talks about, that's the one that Sega was helping to fund I believe. was that ment for the console market?
Hey Joe, now of course, Average "Joe"... LOL! Is any of that stuff stored anywhere? Especially the piece on wedding bands versus deejays was very good advice ;-)
Tommy, Dim3D was truly special. After it, I think even B3D forum hasn't gathered quite such a density ( no pun intended ) of 3D professionals in one place. ( Maybe the amount, but not the density -- the S/N ratio was exceptionally high. ) The forum was always a fascinating read. ( I newer wrote, because I correctly felt that I was on the N side of the equation. Still am )
Will be interesting to see what it is that you guys keep not hinting at!
Tommy, Dim3D was truly special. After it, I think even B3D forum hasn't gathered quite such a density ( no pun intended ) of 3D professionals in one place. ( Maybe the amount, but not the density -- the S/N ratio was exceptionally high. ) The forum was always a fascinating read. ( I newer wrote, because I correctly felt that I was on the N side of the equation. Still am
) Will be interesting to see what it is that you guys keep not hinting at!
Someone mentioned the Chromatic chip. I have a board based on those things, 8 megs of dual-channel 600MHz RDRAM (note lack of the initial 'D'; this is first-gen 8-bit RDRAM), etc. It was said to be a VLIW design, but I don't know how much of its 3D pipeline is software and what is hardware.
It got REALLY hot I remember, the chip itself has a metal BGA package and with a passive cooler on it. VERY hot... Memory chips didn't run hot at all though, very strange!
Anyone has any hard info on this strange beast? I've tried to googling up stuff about it on the web, but there doesn't seem to be anything available out there.
*G*
It got REALLY hot I remember, the chip itself has a metal BGA package and with a passive cooler on it. VERY hot... Memory chips didn't run hot at all though, very strange!
Anyone has any hard info on this strange beast? I've tried to googling up stuff about it on the web, but there doesn't seem to be anything available out there.
*G*
Gunhead said:
I'm sure I could find it on my PC somewhere if Joe can't. I know I have a lot of it archived. Joe let me know if you can't find it and I'll send it to Gunhead if he still wants it.
Gunhead said:
Well, thanks! It sure was a baby of mine. I do miss it. I just don't think it could ever be duplicated again in these times. I would never try anyway. Better to just keep the memories. Gunhead said:After it, I think even B3D forum hasn't gathered quite such a density ( no pun intended ) of 3D professionals in one place. ( Maybe the amount, but not the density -- the S/N ratio was exceptionally high. ) The forum was always a fascinating read. ( I newer wrote, because I correctly felt that I was on the N side of the equation. Still am
Well, I'm not so sure about that. Traffic was very small compared to what Beyond3D has currently. And I remember having to remove messages and banning a lot of people. Which inevitably led to people lashing back at me or the moderators. Man did it get nasty there in the beginning. I will agree that it was sure nice to know that there were a lot of professionals reading and posting on my forums. It was definitely one thing I think that kept the forums going for so long even after the rest of the site wasn't being updated. It's good to see that a lot of my visitors found a home here.
Gunhead said:
LOL
Well, if anybody wants to find out then they need to send emails or PMs to Joe and tell him to reply to my email. I've been waiting on him for the past month to tell me what he thinks of my ideas, but he keeps spending his time in this forum reading and posting messages instead. Maybe that will get Joe jumpstarted. Hehe Tommy McClain
