Warp3d Voodoo vs. Radeon ClassicOS

[amiadudeorwat]

I finally was able the Mediator i4000D v3.3 version working!!!!
This was after several months of frustration and several months waiting to get it back from Elbox. etc....

But to Elbox's credit it now works great!!!!


Overall it is quite nice.  It works well with a v3.3 Radeon 9250 I got fairly cheaply on fleebay and even nicer is the fact that the Sonnet 7200 G4 works very well without modification with the version 13.1 pci.library and Jenkin's latest sonnet powerpc.library.

The question I have for all of you is how useful is Warp3d?

It look like the mediator supports warp3d with Voodoo, but not with Radeon.
So I guess my questions are:

1)  How important/useful is Warp3d?
2)  Is there a Radeon Warp3d library?
3)  If not Which is faster in PPC games a Voodoo3 with Warp3d or Radeon 9250 without?

1)  If you want to play the games that support Warp3D, then you don't want to play them in software mode.  If you don't want to play any of the Warp3D games then not useful.
2)  No, there is no Radeon Warp3D driver, this needs to be written or ported from OS4.
3)  A Voodoo3 in Warp3D mode will be 2-4x+ faster than a Radeon in software mode and look better too.

[amiadudeorwat]

I don't think Elbox are ever going to publish a Warp3D driver for a Radeon as they haven't even fixed the problems with the Voodoo 4/5.  I doubt Hyperion will port any Radeon Warp3D drivers for OS 3.X since it's a significant amount of effort and they have other things to do.  Maybe a bounty could entice someone to do it.  I'm in for $50.

[amiadudeorwat]

Also, what resolution is that?

To be fair you picked the fastest Voodoo 3 (ie the 3000) and picked the slowest r200's (ie the R8500LE and R9200 SE,  with the 9200 you would want the faster model with the 128 bit transfer ram (not the SE with slower gpu and 64 bit transfer).

However the real reason to be interested in the 9200 is that it is available (voodoo's are become rare like sonnets) and cheap.  Additionally they run much cooler than the voodoos.

[amiadudeorwat]

Very Cool,  How did you get the Radeon working with warp3d in classic OS!!!!!

Are you going to make this available??

That video is from Hedeon from the Sonnet Amiga project.

[amiadudeorwat]

Did you all decide how much money it would be to write or port ATI 9X00 drivers for Warp3d for 3.x for 68k and PPC?