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Offline spirantho

Re: WTB: PC 3D video card in ISA slot, possible???
« on: April 12, 2013, 07:37:46 AM »
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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Offline spirantho

Re: WTB: PC 3D video card in ISA slot, possible???
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2013, 12:27:33 PM »
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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