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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Amiduffer on November 13, 2006, 09:47:01 PM
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Besides having a nicer looking workbench and more colors for your graphic programs like ImageFX, are there any special applications or games that were made for RTG cards specifically?
I've got a Cybervision 64/3D and i'd like to see what I can do with it.
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There's a GFX program that's specially designed
for Amiga's with GFX-cards:
Perfect Paint (http://gothic.fr.free.fr/amiga/download.html)
Don't know about any games though...
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Personal Paint too, right?
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theres a version of Descent that works quite good on the Virge DX3D cards like that one.
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Hi,
Most system-friendly applications allow the user to choose the screenmode to be used, and any such programs will benefit from the RTG card's increased resolution, colour depth and speed.
- Ali
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If you do any graphics work (i.e. rendering, ImageFX, PageStream), then really a RTG graphics card is almost a must. It really makes things so much easier on the eyes, and you get a truer picture of what the output will look like (rather than a dithered image).
Also you can get those nice high scan rate screens for your PC type monitor.
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kzin wrote:
theres a version of Descent that works quite good on the Virge DX3D cards like that one.
Oh really? Which? I have the first two that came in the Total Descent "package". I got to run the first one using the aminet program where you could run it on your A1200. Too bad there wasn't any sound.
Thanks for all the replies everyone.
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The opalvision card (not an RTG CARD) came with what they called worlds first 24 bit video game, King of karate.
King Of Karate (http://hol.abime.net/3911)
opalvision (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/opalvision)
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The opalvision card (not an RTG CARD) came with what they called worlds first 24 bit video game, King of karate.
King Of Karate (http://hol.abime.net/3911)
opalvision (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/opalvision)
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I'd say web browsing is one major thing which benefits about having RTG card. With AGA it's pain in ***, with gfx card in zorro2 it's okayish, with gfx card in faster bus it flies!
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There was a special Virge 3D version before Warp3D was written. Warp3d version should also work, but the Virge support was dropped somewhere I think. Descent played quite well on 320x400 screen, 640 was too much to be playable. But as I did it with my A500T/060/ZII, can´t say how much faster CV3D is on ZIII bus in 3D operation.
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Don't underestimate the "nicer looking" workbench. Nicer looking also includes higher spatial resolutions and refresh rates, which are much better for your eyes :-)
Any sort of games that support RTG (ego shooters etc) will likely be a bit smoother too, given you are doing away with the C2P overhead. There's also a warp3d driver for the virge, but not many W3D applications work too well with it as it is quite limited.
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There are a few games and demos that takes advantage of a RTG card.