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[News] Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operationANN.lu
Posted on 25-Jul-2000 14:01 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä18 comments
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Elbox, the developers of the Mediator PCI-busboard, and Vision Factory, the developers of the popular CyberGraphX graphics system, have announced their co-operation to make the CyberGraphX system (both v3 and v4) compatible with various PCI graphics cards that can be utilized through the Mediator board. CGX v3 will ship with the busboards. Vision Factory have opened a support page for Mediator. Read the full press-release below.

For Immediate Release

Krakow, PL - 24 July 2000

Elbox Computer, the developer of Amiga hardware and software, who have designed and produced the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, announced a partnership today with Vision Factory Development, developer of CyberGraphX, the widely popular graphic system for Amiga computers.

Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development will co-operate to port and optimize the CyberGraphX graphic system for operation with PCI graphic cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard.

CyberGraphX V3 will be available with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. CyberGraphX V4, the extended commercial version of this system may be obtained from all the CyberGraphX distributors; it will enable even more comprehensive use of the PCI graphic chipsets capacity.

Support for new graphic chipsets will be developed for both versions (V3 and V4) of the CyberGraphX system.

Current information on drivers available for MEDIATOR will be reported at http://www.vgr.com, the official CyberGraphX website.

CyberGraphX

The CyberGraphX standard is being supported by all major Amiga software vendors worldwide. CyberGraphX was designed to define an independent graphics standard for Amiga graphic boards. Continued work on Workbench emulation was also an important issue. Over 7 years of experience in developing graphics board software was employed in making Workbench control screens with all the existing Amiga graphic cards.

CyberGraphX is based on hardware-dependent monitor driver and hardware-independent libraries. This solution has many advantages, one of these being bug fixes in the Workbench card control. Speed optimization is another benefit available for ALL the graphic boards supported by the CyberGraphX system. CyberGraphX works with majority of the most popular applications on the Amiga and resources of Public Domain and Demo software available are broad.

MEDIATOR PCI 1200

The MEDIATOR PCI 1200 is a new-generation busboard for Amiga 1200 computers. The MEDIATOR busboard is fitted with four PCI 2.1-compiliant slots for connecting PCI devices, thus enabling expansion of Amiga 1200 with a variety of PCI-standard hardware products.

MEDIATOR's hardware has been made compatible with ALL the available Amiga 1200 turbo cards. MEDIATOR PCI opens an immense wealth of PCI cards for Amiga 1200 owners: network, sound, modem (ISDN), decoding (MPEG-2, MP3), TV, and, most of all, graphic cards based around chipsets like S3 ViRGE, Savage4, Voodoo3, Voodoo5, Riva TNT2, etc.

MEDIATOR PCI enables using the high-end cards based around the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors (available in the PCI card form) in Amiga 1200 computers. When this feature is combined with the PCI graphic cards, totally new superb possibilities are open for Amiga owners.

Elbox Computer, Press Department Mariusz Wloczysiak press@elbox.com

Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 1 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Wohoo! :-)
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 2 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Does this mean that we are finally gonna see support for hardware YUV2RGB conversions ?
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 3 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
I know this may sound silly, but it would probably be possible to get a few Mac people over here to a cheaper alternative to the Mac (G4 Macs are hilariously expensive). Run iFusion on it, and they wouldn't tell the difference, would they? (except now they have to use a mouse with more than one button... GASP!) :-)
Just a thought...
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 4 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Mikael Kristensen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Henrik Mikael Kristensen):
And we could get to play HALO! ;-)
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 5 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by redrumloa on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
I may have to buy a A1200. I want to see this thingy actually ship... But it is sounding less and less like vapour every day:-)
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 6 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Frederik on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
That is great news...
I got the Permedia2 card. but I wuld much rather have this piece of HW.
With the PPC card ofcourse...
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 7 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Henrik Nordhus on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
But why the S3 Virge chip? Why not begin with Voodoo, which is what
everyone seems to want anyway.......
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 8 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Henrik Nordhus):
Because Voodoo sucks ?
They should have started with a good, cheap gfx card like something the TNT 2 chip on it.
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 9 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by SimplePPC on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
S3 Virge because there is already an driver for that on the CV 64 3/D perhaps ?
3DFX Voodoo because drivers for linux are opensource ? not Nvidia because they don't
give developer info ?
3DFX Voodoo3 because it's PCI and is cheaper and some people don't care if the framerate is
50 or 80 ?
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 10 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (SimplePPC):
The Nvidia 3.x X server are open source, Nvidia's chips can do both 2D and 3D and Nvidia's chips can do 32bit 3D where the Voodoo chips can only do 16 bit.
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 11 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Mark Olsen):
In a utility to play with Voodoo chip settings titled 'TweakIt' (on Win.) there is a settings called 'Enable 24bpp'... (I can't try this.)
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 12 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Jules on 24-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Only mentions support for Mediator PCI A1200 version in any of the
press releases. Anybody know if the Mediator PCI Z4 version will also
be supported?
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 13 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Geir Inge Aurvåg on 25-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
Whee!! this is good news!
I think I have to buy a A1200, just to use this busboard..
my a4k ppc hungers for pci slots at the moment.
anyways, as I found on Power Computing site, where allready mediator
listed. it says this:
Cost-effective PCI add-on modules:
Graphic cards based on processors:
S3 Virge 4MB errr.. do we really need ViRGE?
3dfx Voodoo 3 16MB
3dfx Voodoo 5 32MB afaik does Voodoo5 come in PCI and does 32bpp 3D
MPEG-2 hardware decoder based on EM8400 processor
Ethernet card 100Mb/s
ISDN adapters
Sound card based on Yamaha 744 processor
USB Controller
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it aslo says that there are going to be two version of the Mediator busboard,
1200 and ZIV, and will be in stock by August 2000. preorder is 129£ not bad :)
I wonder... can I use that old Voodoo Banshee Ive got lying here unused?
still, great news!
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 14 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 25-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous):
Making it do 16bit graphics on a 24 bit screen ? :) Anyways, 24 is not 32, and a 32 bit screen is kinda useful.
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 15 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Mark Olsen on 25-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Jules):
It will be 100% unsupported, and anyone who attempts to writing his own drivers will be destroyed. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA !
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 16 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Hans-Jörg Frieden on 26-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Mark Olsen):
I agree on the Voodoo, it's by far overrated. NVidia makes good chips, however
the XServer source alone is not a good point to start off. Run into some trouble,
and you will have a hard time figuring out the facts...
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 17 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 29-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Mark Olsen):
AIK, old Voodoo cards use their own screen to the 3D display, so it could switch to 24-bit. AIK2, 32-bit screens also use 3x8bpp for the actual colors, and left the remaining 8 bits unused.
Mediator and CyberGraphX developers announce co-operation : Comment 18 of 18ANN.lu
Posted by XDelusion on 30-Aug-2000 22:00 GMT
VooDoo as far as running Linux or Windows goes, is the best all around choice, granted NVIDIA makes a pretty kick ass chip set, that does
not excuse the fact that Glide foten runs like crap on these cards (via a wrapper) and many times games exspecially older titles and a few
of my emulators will not run at all. To me NVIDIA is powerful, but not backwards compatable, and a lot more flakey than the VooDoo's, though
I have friends that beg to differ I know.
Anyhow NVIDIA cards are Pro AGP and that roots out PCI doesn't it, so forget it, I don't
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