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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: amiman99 on April 11, 2013, 11:06:39 PM
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Anyone know if there is a 3D video card in ISA slot format?
Just purchased another SBC Pentium 266Mhz card for use in my A2000. My previous SBC in A2000 was a 486 50Mhz, but I felt that it was too slow, even running Doom was a little faster then on my A4000.
I'm waiting for ISA edge connector so I can convert 2 PC 8bit ISA slots in A2000 to the 16bits, giving me total of 4.
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Not too sure, plenty of old cards on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=isa+video+card&_sop=15
As for working with an Amiga, wouldn't know :-(
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You may need one of these for it to work
http://penguincentral.com/GG2/
Nevermind I see you have a PC card :-)
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There was never a 3D card released in ISA format. The first 3D card I remember was the S3 Virge but that was PCI, even back in '95. There may have been one or two VLB versions of PCI cards made but never ISA.
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Not too sure, plenty of old cards on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=isa+video+card&_sop=15
As for working with an Amiga, wouldn't know :-(
I'm looking for a 3D video card for use with my Single Board Computer.
I'm also planning to buy PCMCIA PC/104 card, so I can use a CDROM or CF card and a 3D card if possible.
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There was never a 3D card released in ISA format. The first 3D card I remember was the S3 Virge but that was PCI, even back in '95. There may have been one or two VLB versions of PCI cards made but never ISA.
I would agree, there were 2 MB VGA cards out there in 16-bit ISA, but 3D cards went PCI then VLB (few), then AGP.
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I remember back in the day there was software options but they were very slow. I ended up getting an ISA to PCI bridge card.
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Well, it was worth a shot. I have a Descent 3 CD game for PC, and one of the requirements was a 3D acceleration.
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I think your best shot is not using your Amiga as a passive backplane and get one with PCI slots for a PCI enabled SBC; or live with 2D games.
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I think your best shot is not using your Amiga as a passive backplane and get one with PCI slots for a PCI enabled SBC; or live with 2D games.
Or, I could use my Quad Core 2Ghz PC...:lol:
But, I want to do things the hard way, hence the ideas.
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Or, I could use my Quad Core 2Ghz PC...:lol:
But, I want to do things the hard way, hence the ideas.
Exactly what my partner said, she goes to me why are you spending time with the 1200/500 when you could use your i7 laptop ;-)
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Creative made a VLB "3d blaster" that was pretty poorly received.
If you can scare one up, a Number Nine GXE might suit.
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I'm not sure there's a lot of point in putting a 3d card on a 16-bit 8MHz bus.....
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I'm not sure there's a lot of point in putting a 3d card on a 16-bit 8MHz bus.....
It's going to be faster than putting a 2d card on a 16 bit 8mhz bus.
If the card has enough vram for the textures then you'll only be sending it a drawlist.
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Don't forget how primitive the early 3D cards were though - none of this hardware T+L and stuff. Plus they didn't have much memory so you'd still need to texture upload a lot (2MB for the S3 ViRGE, and that included the frame buffer!).
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It's going to be faster than putting a 2d card on a 16 bit 8mhz bus.
If the card has enough vram for the textures then you'll only be sending it a drawlist.
It's not just the through put, but also the latency...
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I know my uncle had a 3D card in his 486, but i dunno if it was an ISA card. Might have been a VLB card.
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how about this one ELSA Winner 2000?
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/home/1173-elsa-winner2000-4
Got S3 chip in it.
Edit: Looks like not a 3D chip, (S3 virge was 1st 3D from S3)
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I think I may have a good news, the SBC I have contains Chips
and Technologies 69000 video chipset which looks like supports OpenGL, so I might be good to go!