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Luck of the Irish?
27.01.05 at 07:17:10
 
There might be some truth to it Wink

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Payment sent and board in route, woot!

Anyone in the San Jose area? I might be there in a few weeks!

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Reply #1 - 27.01.05 at 09:03:33
 
omfg! nice

is it a Voodoo 3 ? and that connector in the upper left is for SLI?

where did you get it? ebay?
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Reply #2 - 27.01.05 at 09:05:09
 
okay found it Wink

Quantum3D AArdvark

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Quantum3D does indeed make some Arcade equipment, this videocard is based on a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee, whats the difference bewteen this and a normal Voodoo Banshee?? Notice the two ports on the picture, one port is a VGA connector (for VGA monitors) the other is a 9pin EGA connector (for 15kzh/24khz arcade monitors).

You flash the BIOS to what arcade monitor you want to interface, either 15khz (CGA) or 24khz (EGA), the VGA output is never changed.

To achive the output to lower resolution monitors the AArdvark does anti-aliasing, a simple two-by-two anti-aliasing scheme to compress the 2D into a low-resolution display format.

15khz the output is 320x240, and supports either 320x240 or 640x480.

24khz the output is 512x384, and supports either 512x384, 800x600, 1024x768.

The VGA screen must be one of the above modes and running at 60hz for the video output to be correct.

As the card is almost identical to the Banshee/Voodoo3 in DOS, all references to extra Aardvark functions our noted.

Advantages

Full MAME support for 15/24khz games (using VSyncMAME).
Native 15/24khz output (Aardvark only)
No need for a VGA monitor, PLUG AND PLAY. (Aardvark only)
Windows and Direct3D/OpenGL/Glide at 15khz or 24khz. (Aardvark only)
Motion Compensation for DVD playback.
3DFX Glide support.
Simulatanous VGA and Arcade monitor output (Aardvark only).
Banshee/Voodoo3 2000 cheap.
Supported by Mon-ARC! (full DOS TSR solution)
In-Future support from WinMon-ARC! (25khz Medium Resolution monitor Windows95/98 driver)
Disadvantages

Vesa1.2 when in native arcade mode (Aadvark only), VESA3.0 in software mode.
Native 15khz output is awful, too blurry (Aardvark only).
RGB settings on Arcade monitor way off in Native mode (Aardvark only).
No interlace mode (requried for Vector games).
Expensive if Quantum3D Aardvark..
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Reply #3 - 27.01.05 at 14:48:51
 
Yes it is an Aardvark, I have been searching for one ever since I found mention of the item months ago.

In this case instead of me finding the board, the board found me!
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Reply #4 - 27.01.05 at 17:20:18
 
greetings gary  Smiley very nice item  Cheesy

very special technology  Shocked
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Reply #5 - 27.01.05 at 19:42:27
 
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There might be some truth to it Wink

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Payment sent and board in route, woot!

Anyone in the San Jose area? I might be there in a few weeks!


Hey Gary that's a very special nice investment Smiley It looks like it has more than 16MB SGRAM , what are those two SGRAM like chips in the top is that extra memory or is that something else?

I heard one that there was a 18 Meg Banshee, and the only brands that have wierd stuff are Canopus and Quantum3D, but it looks like your card has 20 megs, which is quite odd if it would be that way.
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Reply #6 - 27.01.05 at 23:43:46
 
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Hey Gary that's a very special nice investment Smiley It looks like it has more than 16MB SGRAM , what are those two SGRAM like chips in the top is that extra memory or is that something else?

I heard one that there was a 18 Meg Banshee, and the only brands that have wierd stuff are Canopus and Quantum3D, but it looks like your card has 20 megs, which is quite odd if it would be that way.


Well that should not be possible since the Banshee and Voodoo 3 can only access 16 MB. If they are extra ram chips not sure what they would be doing.

Board will be in my hands Friday if all goes well.
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Reply #7 - 28.01.05 at 10:12:00
 
in my quoted article you can read that this card does Anti Aliasing in a special way, perhaps this extra memory is designated for doing this...
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Reply #8 - 28.01.05 at 15:04:43
 
All 3dfx cards can do edge anti-aliasing and still doesn't change Banshee chip can only access 16MB.

The ram (if it is ram) cannot be accessed by Banshee, it's a limitation of the chip design.
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Reply #9 - 28.01.05 at 15:30:16
 
I'm guessing to are chips for the secondary output. Seems logical to me.
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Reply #10 - 30.01.05 at 03:06:41
 
AAdvark # 7 is home.
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Reply #11 - 30.01.05 at 08:01:47
 
no #7?
u have 7 of these cards??  Shocked
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Reply #12 - 30.01.05 at 08:03:01
 
And it does indeed have what looks like a network connector at the top, how odd!
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Reply #13 - 30.01.05 at 08:06:04
 
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no #7?
u have 7 of these cards??  Shocked


Has a tag on it that states card #7, it was an internal sample board from a retired Quantum3D engineer.

This is also in route from the same source-

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