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Title: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 14:11:34
Well my 3dfx friends, the truth does reveal it's self, we have discussed lots about the Velocity 200, and those topics still ended in doubts hehe, well I have proof like Gary, Oscar, yxfy do.
The driver install was rather a tricky thing to go through, I have tried all types of Velocity 100/200 drivers, but they just seem to be control apnnels, I even tried your Velocity 100/200 driver FalconFly, but that also seem to be a Controlpannel only driver. So I searched out some other ideas, cause look'n at 16 colours isn't very pleasant haha. SO I tried the AMigaMerlin2.9, that was a nogo, kep the 16 colours, tried some other 3rd party drivers like the ones from 3Dhq, well my Velocity 200 friends even that is a nogo. So I remembered that Gary Told me to use the origanla 3dfx drivers , but I didn't remember which ones lol, damn memory loss, I suppose it's my age lol. So I \came acros this driver on FalconFly's 3dfx Archives Driver Page: 3dfx voodoo3-10700b.zip http://www.traumatic.de/pphlogger/dlcount.php?id=FalconFly&url=http://www.planetfalconfly.de/downloads/voodoo3-10700b.zip and the latest 3dfx Velocity 100/200 AGP crontrol pannel driver: http://www.traumatic.de/pphlogger/dlcount.php?id=FalconFly&url=http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/velocity-10000.zip Velocity 200 AGP control pannel with the techspecs: and here the control pannel with brightness control: StarWars Episode I: Racer with my favourite Pod, the Neva Kee, @ 1024 x 768 x 16 Direct3D max details: As you can see, the Velocity 200 is called Voodoo3, maybe this is because that it's one of the first working Prototypes, it's a Rev.A0 2699 that from week 26 and year 1999, quite early model, the most models were mostly after week 32. It's Bios chip also has a V3.2000 sticker, so maybe that declares the Voodoo3 2000/3000 driver ;) Mysystem setup: PC.4 GASAAP AMD K6-2 3D-Now! 500Mhz @ 550Mhz, 64KB L1, 512KB L2 on mobo. EPoX EP-MVP3G2 with VIA MVP chipset 2x 128MB PC-133 Samsung Original & 1x 32MB PC-100 Apacer total = 288MB @ PC-100 3dfx Velocity 200 AGP 16MB 6ns SGRAM Rev.A0 2699 Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold! 4MB WRAM :P Sweex ATX Case TEAC 540E 40x CD-Rom drive Seagate Barracuda III 30,7GB 7200rpm HDD CTX-VL500 15" CRT Monitor Max reso+refresh rate: 1280 x 1024 x 32 @ 60 Herz, 1024 x 768 x 32 @ 85 Herz. Sunshine Merchandise Promotion 101 keyed US Keyboard Azona Aqua Mouse with Blue Liquid and Dolphin inside ::) FKI FK 250 watt PSU. OS: Win98SE + Un fficial SP2.02 DirectX 9.0c 3dfx voodoo3-10700b driver 3dfx Velocity 100/200 latest Control Pannel The ics of the Vel200 it's self will come at the end of the day because my dad has the Sony 7.2 MP didgi cam in use for his week, but You will be notified on the pics ;) |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 16:22:13 wrote on 01.09.05 at 14:11:34:
Well maybe it states Voodoo 3 because of the reference V3 drivers, if you use the drivers off the Velocity 100 disc it identifies it as a Velocity 100/200. Windows 95 / 98 / Me required I would think though. |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 16:37:20
oh okay, well I just found out that my Velocity 100 CD isn't useable, there seems to be a tear in the CD it's self :|
Oh well, it works fine like this also, or maybe you could link the original Velocity 100/200 drivers :) |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Thandor on 01.09.05 at 16:44:33
Very nice, Obi-Wan ;D
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Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by voodoo5500 on 01.09.05 at 19:16:53
@Obi-Wan_Kenobi,
Glad to see you have things sorted out there ;D |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Eye-Q on 01.09.05 at 20:42:07 |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 20:46:49
hahaha lol thanx for the hint never saw that one , a spelling error, well I have them much myself these days haha, atleast we are not alone on that ;)
very well seen Eye-Q and thanx for the thanx everyone. ;) |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 20:56:45
great trying,Obi-Wan_Kenobi
what is difference between voodoo3 1000 and Velocity 200,,,just bios? i saw the pcb design are same of both... |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 21:15:38
the Voodoo3 1000 runs @ core/mem 125Mha and the Velocity 200 @ core/mem 143Mhz
The Voodoo3 1000 AGP 16MB has 2 TMU's enabled. The production model of the Velocity 200 would of had 1 TMU like it's Velocity 100 compettitor, the production Velocity 200 was advertised but never released. but this early prototype of the Velocity 200 like all other 5 Velocity 200's have both TMU's enabled. |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 21:24:25 wrote on 01.09.05 at 21:15:38:
We really don't know that but it is possible. BTW- I have been doing some research into the whole reason that Velocity 200 was dropped. Several reasons were mentioned including lack of profit, lack of features (OEM's didn't want the boards- no 32 bit color, 256 x 256 textures, etc) and something new, 3dfx fired all the 3dfx reps who handled the OEM accounts. Daytona was suppose to address the "feature checklist" but it didn't make it in time and even if it did 3dfx had fired the people whos job it was to interface with the OEM's. If you don't think usless features are important look how many TNT2M64 cards are still being sold! |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 21:27:50
hmm must of been frustrating for those people too , my gosh.
but it does have 256x256 texturing , you need 2048 x 2048 for 32Bit right? yeah exactly, there are millions of TNT2 M64's! at the computer store where I work, there are still TNT2M64 left overs :-X |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Thandor on 01.09.05 at 21:44:08 |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 21:47:55
nice pic and how to deal with the 3dfx logo?
use photoshop? |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Thandor on 01.09.05 at 21:49:52 wrote on 01.09.05 at 21:47:55:
"how to deal with the 3dfx logo ? :P". You mean it's placed on the wrong location ? And yes, I used photoshop :) |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 21:53:19
yes...it is nice to have 3dfx logo in pictures ( on the right top corner)
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Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 22:57:34 wrote on 01.09.05 at 21:44:08:
Very nice camera work! |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Thandor on 01.09.05 at 23:06:31 |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 02.09.05 at 00:48:54
well i must say thanx to my friend from Oakdale, Gary Donovan, for that card, otherwise it was never possible ;)
Uhm Thak you very much Gary for reservation of the Card ;) |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by gdonovan on 02.09.05 at 01:43:34
No worries mate, no worries.
Soon my active collecting days will be finished and all the extra boards will be released. |
Title: Re: The Real Velocity 200 lives!!! Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 02.09.05 at 02:22:14
Yeah tah Thandor :) I saw them at 3dfx 4-Ever topic @ Gathering Of Tweakers ;) They look very cool I'm useing the 1024 c 768 c32 one as honor to you :)
@ Thandor, Keep them the way they were I liked them better with the Not For Resale stickers part on those backgrounds. ;) |
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