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Title: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 00:38:54

Hi'ya doing? ;)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 31.08.05 at 00:39:28

Welcome back Master Jedi of the 3dfx archives!

Yes I have sensed that you would come back, though indeed there was some cleaning up to do before you came back, now that the threat has been removed, I hope we all can keep this place a secure and safe place.
My new Jedi Students greet you:

The Force Feels strong here and yes my mind is clear.

Remember The Force Will Be With You...Always,

Ben Kenobi.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by BFG3dfx on 31.08.05 at 03:57:42

welcome back, nice to see things back to normal, gary you got anything to share with us while you have been gone............. ::)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 03:59:14

Sure ;D

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/video/v6k_in_lab.mpg

Make sure the sound is on.

Gary

(No small mammals or video cards were injured during filming but the patron saint of V6K's did go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when shown the clip)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by BFG3dfx on 31.08.05 at 04:04:42

lol i think 3dfx fans would look right at home there ::)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Habbs on 31.08.05 at 05:03:21

welcome back :D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 05:30:17

In case anyone missed the news, I found a Rampage board :o

Actually it found me!

(Rampage powered Quake 3 server!)

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/rampage.htm

(Yes BFG, that is the other Epox board from you with the 1800+)

Quantum3D style rackmount V5-6000 AAlchemy system!

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_v6k.htm

V5-6000 Benchmarks!

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/bench_v6k.htm

V5-6000 FAQ page in English and now German!

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/v6k_faq.htm

Deathmatch online with V6K and Doom3 =)

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_aalchemy.htm

8164 page updated.

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_hm15.htm

Heavy Metal #15 page updated (confirmed demo box from Quantum3D) new pics to be uploaded in a few days.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by edmundoab on 31.08.05 at 08:37:44

wow,
thats a whole lot of report ever since he went off for a while

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 31.08.05 at 09:52:12

that's the way to do Gary show them ;) nice pics and very well known hehe, I visited Gary's page every day, since he introduced the V56K with experimental cooling it really got intresting, then the Rampage came. I called that memmorial day. The Rampage Arrives :)

it's a Rev.A1 4700 week 47 year 2000 and just a few days after it 3dfx died. man they have done a great job gett'n that baby alive and kick'n Quake3 within 3 days Whoo hoo hoo!!! ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by frank-bao on 31.08.05 at 11:22:47

that is great, you are back and welcome

Gary, the power man of voodoo collection

:D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 31.08.05 at 12:27:31

well he's one of the Jedi Masters of 3dfx to me ;)

@ Gary,

What are those jumpers meant for on the 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP x4 32Mb DDR Rev.A1 4700?

The jumpers are located just above the VSA-200 Ramapge GPU and also scattered next to the Specter 1000's Bios chip.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by TM30 on 31.08.05 at 12:32:46

welcome back ;D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by voodoo5500 on 31.08.05 at 12:58:25

@gdonovan,

Good to see your back, you make the 3dfx scene here at Falconfly's more interesting 8) ;)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 13:09:31

wrote on 31.08.05 at 12:27:31:

What are those jumpers meant for on the 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP x4 32Mb DDR Rev.A1 4700?

No idea and I don't monkey with them either.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 13:12:42

wrote on 31.08.05 at 08:37:44:

wow,
thats a whole lot of report ever since he went off for a while

There is now an "updates" link in the navigation menu at the very bottom. Pretty much anytime something new is uploaded I drop a note there.

Some other new stuff too but I'm waiting for one or two items to pan out before posting =)

Thanks everyone, good to be back.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gamma742 on 31.08.05 at 17:52:39

WooHoo!! Welcome back my friend ;D

Things have been very slow during your absents.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by The_Cat on 31.08.05 at 18:15:26

Welcome Back :)

*cat the quietly reader* ;)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 19:09:53

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 31.08.05 at 19:47:38

nice Prive' cards :) I suppose had hese for quite some time, did you not?

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 20:03:04

Nope, these three came with a pile of cd's and DVD's loaded with beta drivers, press cd images and movies that showed up in the mail the other day.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by voodoo5500 on 31.08.05 at 20:28:22

@gdonovan,

Just out of curiousity, the Rampage card you have acquired would be like having the holy grail, but I'm assuming the driver must be very alpha\immature ?

So even if the card is somewhat stable and does not have many hardware bugs, will it not be nearly impossible to realize the cards full potential without advancing the driver ?

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 20:54:14

The Rampage opengl driver is going to be polished by the best man at hand and I have contacts with a few people who worked on the project.

=)

Patience is required on this as I have other projects and tasks pulling at my time.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by edmundoab on 31.08.05 at 21:26:39

would be a dream come through to finally see a real rampage in action.

i hope this project succeeds nevertheless

the whole community is behind ya on this =)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 31.08.05 at 21:28:59

The mailman has arrived- The 5500 REV A0 is indeed a 1400 with "NOT FOR RESALE" tags.

Works perfect, I suspect it has been reflashed as it has a 1.16 bios though. I have it running Quake3 demo loops on the testbed to make sure all is well.

Vigilance my friends, vigilance.

The CD's pictured are what came in the other day- Press kit images before they were finished, beta drivers (including RC1 for 3500TV both in English and Japanese) videos, loads of pics, etc.

I'm going to try and compile the stuff onto a single DVD, it will be avaliable for the cost of the disc and shipping.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by edmundoab on 31.08.05 at 21:37:35

one hella stuff to sort out wow

good luck in anycase :o

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gamma742 on 31.08.05 at 21:41:30

Well let me be the first to place an order for one of those DVDs ;D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by paulpsomiadis on 01.09.05 at 01:05:03

Welcome back @Gary! ;D

...as for the DVD, I'm opening a new thread for pre-orders if this is okay (trying to keep this thread 'clean')... ;)

New thread is HERE :): -

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=offtopic;action=display;num=1125529473;start=0#0

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.09.05 at 01:09:10

Nice one Paul :) I'm ready for anything new hehe like everyone else is hehe, we have waited long for new stuff to be com'n fly'n in :P

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gab on 01.09.05 at 11:09:36

great to see u in action again!

welcome back :)

u have got a super great new stuff, excellent ;)

adios, GABriel // Go Spurs GO!

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 11:42:42

nice card voodoo5 5500 agp2x prototype

i desire to get one ,but no chance...........

all of that stuffs always in usa....

:(

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 12:59:48

wrote on 01.09.05 at 11:42:42:

all of that stuffs always in usa....

Not always true but the bulk of it is for sure.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 13:07:52

wrote on 01.09.05 at 12:59:48:

Not always true but the bulk of it is for sure.

but prototype is bulk i suppose or oem version.

a lot of testing labs or it magazines can receive engineering sample for test.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Eye-Q on 01.09.05 at 13:57:01

I think gdonovan didn't mean "bulk cards" with "bulk" but "the biggest part". ;)

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 14:00:30

Yes, here in the U.S. "bulk" = "majority" or large number.

I was very confused when collectors from Europe listed cards as "bulk" till I figured out it meant either OEM or just unboxed in general.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by frank-bao on 01.09.05 at 14:10:08

yes. maybe the different style of english language.

in uk..."bulk" means unboxed or oem...often saw on ebay uk.

i do not know "bulk" means majority actually..

sorry about that...

:D

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by gdonovan on 01.09.05 at 14:34:17

No worries at all.

Title: Re: Luck of the Irish II: ROTJ
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 02.09.05 at 03:17:20

So Gary , are you gonna keep your Dodge Garage as a hobby still, or are you gonna keep go'n on with 3dfx or are yo gonna keep both?