Wednessday 12.04.2000 |
| 12.04 Review: RAZER BOOMSLANG 2000 New review at RIVA Station: The Kärna Razer Boomslang 2000:
Besides good and fast graphics the most important thing for players of first person shooter titles are the input controllers. Kärna offers those with its Boomslang mice series. High precision, but also at a high price...if this mouse is really worth it, read it here... |
Tuesday 11.04.2000 |
| 11.04 S3 Graphics section goes to VIA The graphic section of S3 will life on in a new joint-venture with VIA. This was announced in a pressrelease today. SANTA CLARA, CA., April 11, 2000 - S3® Incorporated (NASDAQ: SIII) today announced that it has agreed to transfer its graphics chip business to a newly established joint venture between VIA Technologies, Inc and S3® in exchange for approximately $323 million in cash and securities. S3® will receive additional earn-outs if certain financial milestones are achieved by the joint venture. In addition, S3® will sell three million shares of its stock to VIA Technologies, Inc at a price coincident with the signing of the definitive agreement. (...more) 11.04 Matrox - Technology demo Demonews reports of a new Matrox technology demo: Matrox Ripple Demo (with source): This sample shows how to use a 32bit 8888 texture as a source texture for BUMPENVMAP. The advantage of a 32bit bump map source is that it can be used as a render-target and therefore uses the hardware to update it on a frame by frame basis. 11.04 3dfx Interview Hardware Zone made an interview with 3dfx´s Luciano Alibrandi about the new Voodoo 4/5 series cards based on 3dfx VSA-100: - Gio: Will the core and memory clock frequency be the
same, as it is on VooDoo 3 boards? - Gio: The VSA-100 chip is still manufactured with a 0.25
micron process. Is it possible to see a 0.18 version of the chip, later on? This would
allow the chip to reach higher clock speeds? Hm.. I thought that it will be made in 0.22 Micron - like TNT2 Pro and GeForce today... - Komplettes Interview 11.04 RIVA Station in Chip 5/2000
The actual german magacine Chip 5/2000 made a report about the Internet hardware scene. RIVA Station stands aside Anandtech, Tomshardware, The Register and HardOCP... party on! But the photos... damn! ;-) |
Monday 10.04.2000 |
| 10.04 TV Tool v4.01 The freeware TV-Tool offers many tweaks and TV-Out optimizations for cards based on TNT2 and GeForce. last version: 4.0.1 new features: Download: TV-Tool Read the readme-helpfile that comes with the archive before you use the tool. This little tool offers all these things you miss in your manufacturers or reference drivers. 10.04 Screensaver
Alias Wavefront released the Screensaver Paint Effects: The Maya Paint Effects Screen Saver is based on the Paint Effects technology in Alias|Wavefront's Maya 3D animation package. The screen saver will fill your computer screen's idle moments with a large variety of natural and not so natural effects. Cover your screen with flowers, pretzels, vines, galaxies, feathers, copper pipes, or any of the other fascinating presets provided. Expand your palette even further by downloading additional presets below. 10.04 Webwide
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Saturday 08.04.2000 |
| 08.04 AIWars Demo AIWars plays in a future in which all transactions are made in a net by virtual avatars, called Agents. As a hacker you will travel trought the networks and try to get software or information to sell it on the black market. With the money you can update your computer or software to get increase better skills. You can interact with other Agent in the networks - in a friendly or hostile stile. The optic looks strange but very interessting. On the technical side is Direct 3D, Glide and OpenGL (Status: Experimental) support. There is no chance in this demo to increase the resolution so you have to play in 640x480. The demo lets you travel through 2 systems where you have to get controll over the net. You must install a backdoor to achive your goals.
The screenshots were made on a GeForce in 640x480. Download (26MB): Fileleech - 3D Files 08.04 Rage6c = RADEON ?? ATi wants to introduce its Rage 128 succesor (known under the codename Rage6c) one day before NVIDIA´s NV15 demonstration at 25/26 April. It´s expected that ATi will show a very powerfull chip. Tweakers.net found out that ATi took a couple of new domain names:
So we can expect that ATi´s next child will be called RADEON. |
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Friday 07.04.2000 |
| 07.04 VIA buys S3? There are more rumors that VIA will buy the gfx section of S3. S3 announced some days ago that they think about the possibility to sell the graphics section to concentrate on net and internet technology. 07.04 More Voodoo4/5 Previews More impressions on Voodoo 4/5: Anandtech / Redwoods 07.04 New ASUS V3800C Bios ASUS offers a new Bios for the ASUS V3800 Combat. The Bios is version 2.05.19.03. The "Combat" is the V3800 NVIDIA Vanta version: Download V3800C Bios |
Thursday 06.04.2000 |
| 06.04 News über Glaze 3D The nordish website Bjorn´s 3D World got news about Bitboy´s 3D weapon Glaze 3D: -They have delayed the release of the specs because they
"are on the virge of such an important technical innovation that every little thing
matters". The king is dead - long live the king! 06.04 New graphicscards tests ASUS
V6800 Deluxe, Creative Annihilator Pro - Tomshardware 06.04 GeForce FAQ update Christopher Hill made an update of his outstanding GeForce FAQ:
(ThanX to nV News) 06.04 ASUS V6800 Pro Review Tresh´s Firingsquad review the new ASUS V6800 64MB DDR-RAM Pure GeForce card. Are 64MB really faster? We immediately started working on locating a 64MB GeForce board, and ASUS came through with an AGP-V6800/64MB GeForce 256 DDR. Read on to find out more about the ASUS card, and see how much having 64MB of memory improves performance! .... The card did not offer any compelling performance gains over the 32MB cards in any of our benchmarks. We feel that the market doesn't need a 64MB card yet, but that will change as games become more demanding. (...more) So you can be happy with your 64MB card.. |
Wednessday 05.04.2000 |
| 05.04 3dfx and Intel enter into a cross licence
agreement Intel and 3dfx stoped their patent war: 3dfx Enters into Patent Cross-License Agreement with Intel SAN JOSE, Calif.- April 4, 2000 - 3dfx Interactive® Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX), a global leader in developing and marketing 3D technology for personal computers, today announced that the company has entered into a mutual patent cross-licensing agreement with Intel Corporation. As part of the agreement, 3dfx and Intel have amicably agreed to dismiss all pending patent infringement lawsuits between 3dfx and Real 3D. Intel acquired Real 3D's technology portfolio last year. “Through its engineering and acquisitions, Intel has built a broad and valuable patent portfolio,” said Dr. Alex Leupp, president and CEO of 3dfx. “We believe the combination of our patent breadth and technical expertise, the intellectual property and technology gained through our recent acquisition of GigaPixel, and this agreement further enhances our ability to deliver leading-edge products to market in a timely manner.” 05.04 John Carmack about Motion Blur ID´s #1 programmer John Carmack made some comments on Motion Blur in the Slashdot Discussionboard: A GeForce should be able to run Q3 at 200 fps at 400x300
(r_mode 1) or possibly even 512x384 resolution if the cpu was fast enough. A dual
willamette at the end of this year will probably do it. 05.04 Pretended NV15 Specs Hothardware offers a PDF File for download that may show the specs of NVIDIA´s upcoming NV15. There´s no confirmation yet if this document is true (the images are in very bad quality). At all it loks like an document that was going around the net a few weeks ago. |
Tuesday 04.04.2000 |
| 04.04 NVIDIA Drivers comparsion What´s up with these new inofficial v5.xx NVIDIA Detonator drivers?
You can download new inoffcial Detonator drivers on many websites. But what´s really new in these drivers? We compared the "old" v3.77 release with the new v5.08 and v5.13 drivers in Windows 98 SE with benchmark and quality comparsions: Detonator v3.77/v5.08/v5.13 comparsion. 04.04 Demo scene
TransmitZ has a lot of new 3D accelerated demos from the demo scene. Most of them look really outstanding, like Wonder Sunflower or Kasparov. It remembers me on the "good old" 64 and Amiga age.... :-) 04.04 Voodoo5 Preview Hothardware took a look on the Voodoo5 5500 during a visit at 3dfx: We packed our gear... Digicam, Notebooks, Laptop, Breath Spray, Cheeze Wiz, Rolaids... all the stuff that a good journalist should come prepared with to any important Tech Conference. We were headed to the Big Apple, New York City. This was a "Power Meeting" and we were ready. We met down town at the Intercontinental. The guys from 3dfx travel in style. Marco kept trying to tip the Doorman but the Cheeze Wiz wasn't going over too well. Room 623, we knocked on the door. "Hey man, you got the stuff?" comes from a gruff voice inside the room. Stuff? Umm, yeah we've got "The Wiz" man.... (Marco issues a firm dope slap upside Dave's head) Uhh, never mind, wrong room... (...more) 04.04 Webwide
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