When will DeltaChrome arrive?

[Tim Murray]

They're the inventors of T& L after all .

I thought T&L never even worked on the Savage 2000?

 

[RussSchultz]

They're the inventors of T& L after all .

I thought T&L never even worked on the Savage 2000?

And it came out after the GF256. Not sure where inventors of T&L came from.

 

[Tim Murray]

I guess you could claim that they were the first to really push decent texture compression... but I think that's about it.

 

[Ailuros]

I think I recall SimonF stating in another forum that SEGA had T&L in quite older arcade machines (if my memory serves me well they used a number of DSP's to do the processing); no idea which model and when though.

***edit: prior to NAOMI systems I think...

 

[Gunhead]

Hey, Pyramid3D had programmable T&L (and programmable pixel ops). Probably the first "PC gaming" product to have it, although we all know the Bitboys saga... But proto P3D boards did exist, so there!

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[CI]

They're the inventors of T& L after all .

I thought T&L never even worked on the Savage 2000?

And it came out after the GF256. Not sure where inventors of T&L came from.

... but IIRC, S3 paper-launched it the day before the GF256 announcement.

 

[RussSchultz]

I think I recall SimonF stating in another forum that SEGA had T&L in quite older arcade machines (if my memory serves me well they used a number of DSP's to do the processing); no idea which model and when though.

***edit: prior to NAOMI systems I think...

The Verite core was a risc processor of some sort. So nah.

(And, I think there were other more expensive professional products that put all these to shame in terms of date and capabilities)

 

[Tagrineth]

Uh... if you want to get technical, then, just like almost anything else fixed-function, SGI "invented" T&L.