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3dfx voodoo?
« on: May 25, 2011, 07:10:15 PM »
whats up with 3dfx pci cards? Why all Amiga fans (with Mediators et al) use them? drivers?
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Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2011, 07:23:18 PM »
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whats up with 3dfx pci cards? Why all Amiga fans (with Mediators et al) use them? drivers?


because are cheap and maybe you can found one for 5 dollars
the drivers are supplied in the mediator cdrom
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Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2011, 07:46:52 PM »
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because are cheap and maybe you can found one for 5 dollars
the drivers are supplied in the mediator cdrom


oh, I meant, is it because there are Amiga drivers only for voodoo cards?

I presume that nowadays there are lot more powerful PCI graphic cards than 3dfx?
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Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2011, 07:53:04 PM »
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oh, I meant, is it because there are Amiga drivers only for voodoo cards?

I presume that nowadays there are lot more powerful PCI graphic cards than 3dfx?


It's the driver situation.  S3 cards are weak sauce (I dunno, maybe they're OK comparatively for the Amiga), nVidia cards are pretty much closed-source on the drivers, so that leaves Voodoo cards or ATI, and I don't know that there are drivers for classic Amigas for the ATI chips.

So that leaves either the old old old Zorro cards, or s3, or 3dfx.
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Offline wawrzon

Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2011, 07:53:42 PM »
exactly. there are drivers for old radeons too. though hardware 3d support is restricted to os4. and beyond even os4 if there even are some drivers, they do not support 3d hw acceleration currently.
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Offline HammerD

Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2011, 09:03:20 PM »
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whats up with 3dfx pci cards? Why all Amiga fans (with Mediators et al) use them? drivers?


People like the Voodoo 3 because it has AmigaOS 3.x drivers and AmigaOS 4.X drivers for 2D and 3D (Warp3D).  It also has 16MB of RAM in the Voodoo 3, and 32MB of RAM in the 4 and 5.

They are also relatively cheap.   Getting harder to find, though.
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Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2011, 10:02:50 PM »
I thought amiga drivers were for radeon only has in powerpc stuff
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Offline wawrzon

Re: 3dfx voodoo?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2011, 10:34:20 PM »
there are radeon 9xxx 68k driver for mediator by elbox. no w3d though.
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