Help me remember all pre-Voodoo PC 3D accelerators.

[Megadrive1988]

there's some I remember, some I've forgotten about, help me fill in the blanks, the ones I missed.


card / chip (if i can only remember either just the chip or the just card, help out)


Creative 3D Blaster / lowend 3DLabs GLINT (300SX ?)
Diamond EDGE 3D / Nvidia NV1
Number Nine Imagine 128
Matrox Millenium
ATI 3D Rage
Rendition Vérité V1000
3DLabs Permedia
Diamond Stealth 3D / S3 ViRGE
Fujitsu Sapphire 2SX / GLINT 300SX
Yamaha YGV612

 

[Tim Murray]

Is the Matrox Mystique pre-Voodoo?

 

[Citrous]

Wow, I had a mystique. It came with these three games, the only one of which i remember having a lasting imprint on my memory being Mechwarrior 2 Enhanced.

 

[Tim Murray]

Wow, I had a mystique. It came with these three games, the only one of which i remember having a lasting imprint on my memory being Mechwarrior 2 Enhanced.

I had a Mystique too (emphasis on "had"--just got mailed away). First 3D accelerated thing I ever saw was Tomb Raider running with the Mystique patch. I was blown away.

Oh, nostalgia

 

[Geo]

Do the Imagine 128 and Millenium count as "3D"?

 

[Geo]

Is the Matrox Mystique pre-Voodoo?

I don't think so.

http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.123.1

 

[Tim Murray]

I don't think so.

http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.123.1

Er, Geo, according to that it is June 96, compared to August 96 for the Voodoo.

 

[BRiT]

Is the Matrox Mystique pre-Voodoo?

The Matrox Mystake is of the same era as Voodoo. I remember being able to buy a Voodoo before being able to buy the Mystake, at least via the local computer stores, mail-order places, and online stores I searched. A friend picked one up, tried it out for a week, and promptly returned it for a Voodoo.

 

[Geo]

Er, Geo, according to that it is June 96, compared to August 96 for the Voodoo.

Bah, same generation!

 

[{Sniping}Waste]

I can't remeber if the ATI Mach 64 had 3D on it or not. Another GPUs from that time period was Oak Technologys and Cirris Logic.

 

[swaaye]

Matrox Millennium and Matrox Impression series had some 3D accel, just not D3D-lvl. Gouraud shading and some other stuff I believe.

I can't remeber if the ATI Mach 64 had 3D on it or not. Another GPUs from that time period was Oak Technologys and Cirris Logic.

ATI Rage was Mach64 with 3D tacked on. Oak never had 3D (Warp 5 dead) and Cirrus Logic Laguna3D I think came well after Voodoo Graphics.

 

[Dio]

Probably both unreleased, I've got preproduction SMOS and Oak Warp 5 boards in the antiques cabinet here, but they were a bit behind the Voodoo 1.

To be honest I reckon the Voodoo 1 precedes most of what you've got there - the only ones I'm pretty sure were earlier were the Millenium (which didn't have textures) and the Yamaha. The ViRGE was sampling around the same kind of time too.

I was seeing prerelease boards rather than shop production models though - the Voodoo was knocking around a while in the high-end before anyone made consumer product out of it.

Bloody hell, have I been writing drivers for these things for more than 10 years now?

 

[_xxx_]

Pre-Voodoo, there were only gfx deccelerators.

 

[Simon F]

Pre-Voodoo, there were only gfx deccelerators.

Seriously though, you could get 3D accelerator boards for PCs before then but they were, IIRC, at least £1000 in the UK.

 

[Urian]

NextVision, the Graphics Card with Intel i860 for NEXT workstations. i860 has a small 3D chip inside of it but very simple.

 

[_xxx_]

Seriously though, you could get 3D accelerator boards for PCs before then but they were, IIRC, at least £1000 in the UK.

Sure, but what did these accelerate besides 2-3 proprietary titles, if anything?

 

[pcchen]

They accelerated CAD/CAM "titles," if these counts
And they are hardly proprietary, because most of them uses OpenGL.

 

[_xxx_]

They accelerated CAD/CAM "titles," if these counts
And they are hardly proprietary, because most of them uses OpenGL.

Oh, I was more aiming at the NV1 and it's non-triangle based rendering and such.

 

[IgnorancePersonified]

Quake on a virge GX was a lot better than quake on a "2d" card. Was the Vesa support which I never understood.

 

[Simon F]

Sure, but what did these accelerate besides 2-3 proprietary titles, if anything?

To be fair, all the cards of that era only (initially) had their own proprietry APIs so it was really a matter of how much effort the ISV (and/or IHV) put in.