Archive / 1997 / August

Rendition Cards

4 posts by 4 people · 07 Aug 1997 - 15 Aug 1997

Mark 07 Aug 1997#374989

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01BCA31B.D09FA860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I heard once in this newsgroup I believe about a new rendition card coming out with verite 2200 instead of 1000. Is this true? And if so, when will these cards be on the marke? Also, which name brand would be the most compatible most rend programs? How much will they sell for about? Mark F. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01BCA31B.D09FA860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1008.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>  I heard once in = this newsgroup I=20 believe about a new rendition card coming out with verite 2200 instead = of 1000.=20 Is this true? And if so, when will these cards be on the marke? Also, = which name=20 brand would be the most compatible most rend programs? How much will = they sell=20 for about?   Mark = F.</BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01BCA31B.D09FA860--

rtice 08 Aug 1997#375040

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>> I know I really like my Intergraph board, the 3D support is great in >> ICR2 and pretty good in N2. Windows performance is also very good. >> The problem I have with it is the DOS performance. It is truly awful. >> If you are considering a 3D card, think about if you can live with bad >> DOS performance or not. If you only live in a WIN95 world, then this >> board is very good. >> Unless the new board has remarkedly better DOS level performance, I >> won't be buying it. >Just so people aren't confused by this. Verite boards don't have poor >DOS performance, they have poor VGA performance. This only includes the >text modes and the low-res graphics modes. There are patches to improve >the low-res VGA for some games but they don't work for modeX games such >as Doom. The hi-res(640X480 etc.) Vesa DOS modes are extremely fast. >So the Verite's DOS performance should only be a concern if you run alot >of old low-res software. >Dana Bailes

You are correct, I used DOS to mean VGA. I have always considered the hi-res mode to be SVGA, which to me was not standard DOS mode but a higher performance mode of video which was not native to DOS. I used the following model: VGA=DOS SVGA=depends on implementation of video board support There are a lot of other factors such as color depth, memory on the video board, modes supported, etc. Robin

Bob 14 Aug 1997#375510

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> I heard once in this newsgroup I believe about a new rendition card > coming out with verite 2200 instead of 1000. Is this true? And if so, > when will these cards be on the marke? Also, which name brand would be > the most compatible most rend programs? How much will they sell for > about? > Mark F.

Hercules is supposed to have a board out in the September time frame which is based on the V2200.

AKhan226 15 Aug 1997#375586

The Hercules Thriller 3D will ship next month at $179 using the V2200 chipset which will come bundled with 3 titles