3dfx Archive - RRedline Accelerator

Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #15 - 31.07.05 at 14:32:15 aha, JAZZ Multimedia did have one though, and it's nice and blue also: Click Thumbnails to enlarge Card with Box, from TM30 Card closeup:
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #16 - 31.07.05 at 15:19:54 Yes, I remember seeing this one. A nice card, with nice packaging too. However, it is the Hercules card, just re-branded for a third pary distributor.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #17 - 31.07.05 at 17:36:00 well I haven't seen any Gigabyte one, I suppose I was mixed up with the JAZZ Multimedia one
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #18 - 31.07.05 at 20:16:00 It's possible. I remember seeing this Jazz V2200 card a few months earlier, and I can't believe I totally forgot all about it. Maybe because I found out it was a third party distributor through Hercules, which pretty much means, the same card. Although it is nice to have it in a different retail format.
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Re: RRedline Accelerator
Reply #19 - 31.07.05 at 23:37:17

I had some 'fun' with my old V2200 card... Roll Eyes

I had to hack a BIOS update file using a hex editor, as the BIOS on the card got knackered one day! Tongue

Only reason was that the BIOS fiels were updated from an embedded EXE...and the EXE file needed LOADS of base memory...so it didn't work! Angry

One short hex editing session later...and I reflashed my Hercules card and it was back to normal. 8)

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #20 - 01.08.05 at 12:09:06 Phew! Close one. What exactly were you trying to do with the BIOS? Also, I snagged this old V1000 yesterday: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6788255296
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #21 - 01.08.05 at 15:32:42 I couldn't reflash the BIOS as it was embedded in an EXE - the EXE needed LOTS of base ram in DOS and would not load... ...so I hacked the BIOS file out of the EXE and used another flash program to reflash the card! BAM - it worked!
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #22 - 01.08.05 at 17:35:31 Crikey! Are Rendition's BIOS file always embedded within .exe's, or was this one just special ? Did you hex edit the .exe?
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #23 - 05.08.05 at 12:55:43 Quote: Phew! Close one. What exactly were you trying to do with the BIOS? Also, I snagged this old V1000 yesterday: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6788255296 oei that's an oldie! don't see them that much around these days nice catch Jan
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janskjaer

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Reply #24 - 05.08.05 at 20:04:04

And it works like a dream too!

I'm using it on my Windows 98 SE partition, playing Rendition's VeriteQuake! Grin

Rendition configured the card to play GLQuake. All you have to do is replace the opengl32.dll in GLQuake's directory with the veritegl.dll that comes with the V1000's drivers.

Looks just as good as it does on the 3Dfx voodoo1 chipset, but it doesn't run even half as fast! Sad

That was the true power (and popularity) of the voodoo1 chipsets. Wink

Still, I'm hoping to get some screenshots of it. I just need to find a screen grabber that captures the rredline API.

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Reply #25 - 06.08.05 at 16:12:34

Well it seems HyperSnap DX 5 will do the job perfectly well. Grin

The first image was shot using 'print screen' and MS Paint. The others though HyperSnap. Note the mouse pointer. This only appears when using HyperSnap to capture GLQuake shots using the Rendition V1000.
Some of the pictures are quite dark so you may need to turn the brightness up on your screens.

Not the last screenshot, and how the Rendition V1000 chips also supports motion blur in GLQuake+.

The framerate using GLQuake's default res (640x480) was terrible! Sad

(around 4fps!) It played much better using 320x240.

I recently purchased Turok - Dinosaur Hunter, and in the manual it recommends using 320x240 for Rendition V1000 chips also.

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Reply #26 - 07.08.05 at 00:05:26

I had to HEX edit the BIOS image (BIN file) out of the EXE in which it had been embedded by the Hercules engineers... Roll Eyes

The thing is that most of the V2200 cards - including the one from DiamondMM had only 4MB RAM...whereas the Hercules one that I own has 8MB. Wink

But the EXE updater from Hercules was SH!TE...it just refused to load! Angry

To I hacked the BIOS out of the EXE and used the DiamondMM flash program to reflash the card...wheee! It worked! Grin

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janskjaer

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Re: RRedline Accelerator
Reply #27 - 07.08.05 at 11:12:52

This is the only snag with the Rendition boards. The small amount of memory on them.

It was silly if the Diamond S220 had only 4Mb RAM, as the Creative Blaster PCI V1000 has 4Mb RAM too.

This is the only thing letting the cards down. The quality is brilliant, but the speed can be poor sometimes.

If the cards had been built with more memory allocation (say 16Mb on the Hercules Thriller 3D) it would have been a serious contender against even our 3dfx Banshee.

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Reply #28 - 28.08.05 at 20:22:50

With further investigation and in relation to the first post within this topic, regarding the mystery Rendition accelerator that was under development (a new fact every week about the upcoming card, see here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990221150025/www.rendition.com/FOW/), I have found out a little more about this card.

According to http://www.bjorn3d.com, the card was to be called the Rendition Verite v4400.

Here is a quote from http://www.bjorn3d.com/sitehistory.php:

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1998 also was the year for the FOWs. I think every serious Rendition owner knows what I am talking about. To create hype for the upcoming release of the new V4400 chipset Rendition created the Fact Of the Week. Every week a new fact about the V4400 was released. I actually have the FOW files on my computer somewhere but heres a summary:

Week 1: Dual Pipelines

Week 2: Two Heads Are Better Than One

Week 3: 2x64 > 128

Week 4: Bargain Matinee

Week 5: The More The Merrier

Week 6: Go Deep

Week 7: Getting Bigger, Getting Better

You can read it all at http://web.archive.org/web/19990508121220/www.rendition.com/FOW/

In the end Rendition was bought up by Micron and the V4400 delayed/scrapped.

Seeing as Björns site was largely based around the Rendition community, I would take his statement of the v4400 to be 'delayed/scrapped' to be true. Cry

Amongst many other spots of evidence that concur with this, I can only assume the v4400 never made it. Sad

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: RRedline Accelerator Reply #29 - 29.08.05 at 01:33:03 I wonder if there was a prototype made of that V4400, maybe there might be about 10 floating around
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