What exactly is Matrox up to .... get the <facts>

[Flip-Oh]

BitBoys are back?

Check it out:

http://www.beyond3d.com/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=1689

Greets,
Jorg

[KeiFront]

Frontpage of http://www.aceshardware.com/
Topic:BitBoys XBA Silicon Being Manufactured.

Even Ace jumped the bandwagon.

[KeiFront]

Wow over 10000 views!! I guess this is the most viewed thread in the history of Murc (correct me if i'm wrong).

[Pace]

&quot;Everything you wanted to know about the N64 but were afraid to ask!

Just been tidying up round my place here, and found "Nintendo Magazine" - must've game free with another magazine at the launch of the N64. Anyway, it contains the "Technical Specifications"...
<blockquote><hr>
CPU
64 bit RISC based CPU running at a clock speed of 94 MHz.

Memory
RAMBUS D-RAM 36Mbit; maximum transmission speed of 4,500 Mbit/second.

Co-Processor[/b]
SP (sonud and graphics processor) and DP (pixel drawing processor) incorporated: clock speed of 63 MHz.

Resolution
256x224 and 640x480 modes; flicker free interlaced mode support

Color
32-bit RGBA pixel color frame buffer support; 21-bit color video output<hr></blockquote>
I see some humourous elements, the 36Mbit RAM equates to 4.5MB, at 566MB/s. Not that it needed more, but funny how multiplying the numbers by 8 makes it look better Shame they couldn't do that with the 256x224 resolution - what's that for, a texture?

Oh, and looky here, I have the "Graphics Processing Functions" too...

Z-Buffer, Anti-Aliasing, Hardware Texture-Mapping, Trilinear Mip-Map Interpolation, Alpha-Blending...

I guess they asked NVIDIA about trilinear filtering...

And a final quote from the page about the mythical 64DD drive.

<blockquote>"This upgrade uses special custom optical disks (similar in concept to Sony's MiniDisc audio system) which can carry 64 megabytes of data - that's approximately five times the size of the Super Mario 64 cartridge. It's still far off the capacity of the CD, but as Nintendo say, no-one has ever really used CD to the limit, there's just too much data."</blockquote>

Me thinks back to Quake, which is around 50MB I believe when zipped, and Q2 is 150MB zipped...

Hohum, Paul.

[TdB]

wasn´t there some rumors about a matrox powered console??

[VJ]

The new AmigaOne was rumoured to have a next-gen matrox. But this was prior to the release of the G550.

But I just checked the specs :

http://www.amiga.com/products/one/specs.php

and it still says :
-
The Zico Specification

One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
64MB+ memory
Next Generation Matrox graphics card
Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
10 GB+ hard drive
CD & DVD capable drive
USB 1.0
Firewire
10/100 Mbps Ethernet
56k modem
2 spare PCI slots for expandibility
-

Perhaps........?
Is Amiga attending Cebit ?

Jörg

[TdB]

i wasn´t talking about the amiga, and the graphic specs match those "parhelia" specs.

[VJ]

Which console / specs are you refering to ?


Jörg

[KeiFront]

64MB+ memory
10 GB+ hard drive

hmm they had also better added a + sign with usb 1.0. Usb 2.0 is already there and 64Mb memory and a 10Gb HD isn't that spectacular anymore.

[TdB]

i can´t renember it, it was on the murc berfore the server change, a year ago i think.

[VJ]

I did a search for "matrox and console"

In this thread

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21652&highlight=Matrox+AND+console

there is mention of a SNK console, someone corrected it to SaNK...

Was this it ?


Jörg

[VJ]

Searching for SNK on google does provide some links about NeoGeo, but most of them are now obsolete. I doubt this is the correct way to speculate...

Jörg

[TdB]

i think so.
perhaps someone else renember this?

[TdB]

yeah, i think it was called neogeo, there was some rumors about it having a nextgen matrox chip. but im not sure.

[mute]

What about the amiga one ?

been a while since i've seen any news on that ... i've seen some pictures of the board and case ..

http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/pictures.php

but from what i've read it only has agp 1x and 2 memory slots..
but still you can put just about any cpu in there , with an adapter , they say no speed limitation