3dfx Archive - RRedline Accelerator

janskjaer

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RRedline Accelerator
27.07.05 at 00:15:14

According to some of Rendition's old news stories, they were currently developing a new accelerator before they were taken over by Micron Technology.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990221150025/www.rendition.com/FOW/

Also, according to the following URL (do a find for 'RRedline Accelerator' on the page to find it) it confirms that such a production may have been stopped during the takeover.

http://vr.isdale.com/HighEndAccelerators.htm

I know Renditions completed cards the Verite (also known as V1000), Diamond Stealth S220 (V2100) and Hercules Thriller 3D (V2200) were well known cards, but I cannot find anymore info on this mystery accelerator.

@Paul - I know you have the majority or Rendition's cards mate, but have you heard anything of this accelerator?

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #1 - 27.07.05 at 00:16:53 Bugger, this meant to go in 'This & That' area.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #2 - 28.07.05 at 01:24:40 oh well still is interesting ya Know, never heard of "The Rendition RRedline Accelerator but an old friend of mine did have a Rendition V2200 once very long ago, it was a Diamond Multimedia Stealth II S220 AGP 4MB .
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janskjaer

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Re: RRedline Accelerator
Reply #3 - 28.07.05 at 14:05:26

The Diamond Stealth is actually the V2100 chipset if I remember correctly.

Only the Hercules brand carries the V2200 chipset.

Assuming that Rendition use the word "Accelerator", I was assuming a 3D only card similar to 3dfx Voodoo or the PowerVR PCX2 chipset.

However, as Rendition knew they were onto a good thing doing the 2D/3D cards, it is most likely that.

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #4 - 28.07.05 at 16:16:05 do they still exsist the company from Rendition? aka PowerVR?
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janskjaer

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Re: RRedline Accelerator
Reply #5 - 28.07.05 at 23:39:34

Rendition was bought out by Micron Technologies. It is now a division of Micron, but the name Rendition is now all but dead. Sad

PowerVR are still around but abandoned their attempts at PC accelerators soon after the last Kyro 3 model. There are a lot of loyal PowerVR fans (just like us 3dfx fans) still around waiting to see if the 'Series 5' model will ever come. I hope ... but I'm not holding my breath. Sad

PowerVR now concentrate on developing Mobile graphics chips for the next generation of mobile phones and hand held consoles.

The era of 1996 - 2000 saw a lot of companies attempt at making their own 3D proprietary API's to support their 3D accelerators (PowerVR, Rendition, Number Nine and of course 3dfx, RenderWare) with ATI, nVIDIA and Matrox more or less the only ones around at the time
who stuck with using what others had created.

And look who sunk, and who's still around today. Undecided

Madness!

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: RRedline Accelerator
Reply #6 - 29.07.05 at 02:25:40

S3 made great things also, Texture Compression and TransForm & Lighting aka T&L also come from S3, the S3 Savage4 was the first to bear S3TC and the S3 Savage2000 was the first to bear S3TL, t&L originated from S3 and not NV , NV kinda stole everybody's designs, it still hurt's my eyes to see them still around, I liked S3, ATi and Matrox more than ever nowadays, they are the Underdogs still do'n thier jig. Oh not to forget S3 MeTaL that API looks frikk'n great with Unreal Tournament 1999, man it's a shame that S3 MeTaL didn't get further. I still Play UT 1999 with my S3 Savage 2000 with the S3 MeTaL API, it looks way better than D3D or OpenGL, 3dfx Glide has it;s speciallity also, but if you like 32Bit Texture compression in UT 1999 S3's MeTaL is the way to go.

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #7 - 29.07.05 at 12:18:15 I've heard of S3 Metal, but not really investigated much further. I'm interested. If you get anymore stuff together on S3's Metal, start a new thread up for it. It would be interesting to look at. P.S: Make sure you post it in 'This & That'. I made a mistake by putting this thread in here, when it should not have been.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #8 - 29.07.05 at 23:36:55 RRedline was basically renditions answer to the other proprietary API's such as GLide and PowerSGL. So... Rendition V22xx series = RRedline Power VR series = PowerSGL 3dfx series = GLiDE That's the long and short of it! ...oh, and the only card I own is a Hercules V2200!
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #9 - 30.07.05 at 13:01:09 @ Janskjaer Norries mate here we go: http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=displ...
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #10 - 30.07.05 at 18:48:48 That's right. Also, Paul's V2200 was the only one made by Rendition. Hercules were the only ones to distribute the card. Likewise with Diamond and the V2100.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #11 - 30.07.05 at 19:37:52 hmm didn't Gigabyte have a Rendition V2100 also?
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #12 - 30.07.05 at 21:45:29 Not that I am aware of. I cannot also find any such information on the Rendition archive pages. But, please, if you find anything, please let us know.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #13 - 31.07.05 at 02:41:44 okay I will try and scout this one out, I will let youze know asap I'm on it right now.
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #14 - 31.07.05 at 13:37:38 Good luck. Although you may find a limited number of resources to search from as Rendition weren't as popular as 3dfx, so it will be even harder in your quest.
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