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The Diamond Stealth II S220, using the Rendition Verite V2100 2D/3D accelerator, was popular with enthusiasts for its excellent price/performance for both 2D and 3D gaming. A special BIOS patch was released by Diamond for the Stealth II S220 which brought its clock speed up to the same level as the high-end Verite V2200 chip, resulting in equal ...
The upgraded ViRGE/DX and ViRGE/GX models did improve 3D rendering performance, [2] but by the time of their introduction they were still unable to distinguish the ViRGE family in an already crowded 3D market. Outside of 3D rendering, ViRGE was a solid performer in familiar tasks as DOS VGA and Microsoft Windows.
Diamond Stealth 32 VLB with ET4000/W32p. Hardware acceleration via dedicated BitBLT hardware and a hardware cursor sprite was introduced in the ET4000/W32. [3] The W32 offered improved local bus support along with further increased host interface performance, but by the time PCI Windows accelerators became commonplace, high host throughput was no longer a distinguishing feature.
Windows Real-time tactics: The 3DO Company: Source code for the Windows version was uploaded to archive.org in 2022. [89] Art of Fighting: 1992 2014 Neo Geo Fighting game: SNK: The source code was found on an NEC PC-9821 used for developing Neo Geo titles in 2014. [90] [91] Aztec: 1982 2019 Atari 8-bit Action-adventure: Datamost
Name Release date Developer/publisher Babes in Toyland: 1997: Conexus, Inc., MGM Interactive Baby Brats - Super Play Room: 1994: Albert C. Ashton Backgammon: 1990: Graphics Software Labs, Microforum Manufacturing Inc.
The release of Windows NT 3.51 was dubbed "the PowerPC release" at Microsoft. The original intention was to release a PowerPC edition of NT 3.5, but according to Microsoft's David Thompson, "we basically sat around for 9 months fixing bugs while we waited for IBM to finish the Power PC hardware". [3]
Rendition, Inc., was a maker of 3D computer graphics chipsets in the mid to late 1990s. They were known for products such as the Vérité 1000 and Vérité 2x00 and for being one of the first 3D chipset makers to directly work with Quake developer John Carmack to make a hardware-accelerated version of the game (vQuake).
S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999.