Posted on 26-Aug-2000 13:03 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 49 comments View flat View list |
Vision Factory Development are reporting that they've made a Virge-based PCI graphics card successfully work through the Mediator busboard with their CyberGraphX 3 driver (CGX4 driver is in the works). Also a driver for 3Dfx Voodoo3 is being worked on.
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Posted by Ralph on 29-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 47 (Anonymous): >>Anyway, AFAIR Mr. Dellert spoke of a new PCI _BRIDGE_ which
>>could be a little hint that it will end up in another redesign.
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> It seems you cling to this idea. It's possible that they will
> *also* redesign later PPC boards.
Well, as they already _have_ redesigned the boards to not fit
into an A3000D anymore...
> But Mr. Dellert spoke about an "add-on board" exactly.
Oops - didn't get that one.
> It's a "bridge" between PCI bus and CSPPC's GFX bus.
Isn't the CSPPC's GFX bus already a PCI bus?
>>`Maybe it is the only way to realize that project at all.
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> And maybe not. Maybe Mr. Dellert knows it better. :)
Sure. I just wrote my thoughts without claiming them to be a fact =)
>>And it would be rather senseless to settle a 2nd bridge over an
>>existing one, wouldn't it?
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> You can't transform existing boards otherways to PCI, can you? :)
As i wrote above: Isn't the CSPPC's GFX bus already a PCI bus? The
Permedia chip is PCI and the CVPPC basically a pci card with a
different formfactor and different connector to fit into Amiga 3/4kD.
The only thing i am not sure of is whether the bridge to PCI is actually
on the CSPPC or the CVPPC. If it would be on the CSPPC you already have
PCI on that bus and therefore it would not make sense to settle another
bridge (PCI-PCI :) on top of it. You would only need a mechanical converter.
That's what i wanted to say :)
Besides: That DCE-PCI project is actually done by the ESCENA team AFAIK.
So some slight doubts about the availability and release date are allowed... |
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