Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Did they have 3D support back then?
They had Warp3D support for Permedia 2 and Voodoo 3 cards in November 2003, but it didn't make it into the first three public OS4 releases:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2025&forum=14#24045
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4986&forum=14#64958
The 4th public OS4 release from June 2005 "contains Warp3D V51, the all new, OS4-native version of the classic 3D hardware driver system. This release includes completely re-written drivers for the Voodoo 3 (Avenger), Voodoo 4/5 (Napalm) and the Radeon 7x00 series of graphics cards".
http://www.hyperion-entertainment.biz/index.php?option=com_content&id=75&limitstart=1
Which makes it all the stranger that they would jump from the Radeon 7500 to the 9000.
The 8500 has quite an advantage over the 9000, and we are now finding a few FireGL 8800 cards with even faster 8500 based gpus.
If I was to revisit this under MorphoS, the FGL 8800 would be something I'd look for (although Pega-1 tells me I would have to add the card id to the driver).
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
