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It's simple really - there's been no real new products released worth talking about, and most of the support has moved over to Matrox' own forums. When something new is released (that's not based on the G4xx!Originally posted by Dogbert
Here it seems to be the opposite, Matrox still exist, but the community is almost gone. In the times of the G200 and G00 there were so many people here, so many debates, so much life !
I was used to see maggi and joel commenting more than once almost on every thred. Oh well...
) I'm sure this place will wake up again!
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hmm! i thought hercules was old too, didn´t they have their own graphics standard in the pre-vga-era?Originally posted by Dogbert
Matrox is in business for many many years. The only remaining "Dinosaurs" are ATI and Trident, all the othres are gone.This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.Comment
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Yeah, Hercules had their own mono-chrome standard, 720*something, pretty hi-rez for those days.Abit BE6-2 (Rev 2.), P3-1000E@1050(10x105/3), 768mb Kingston 7.5ns CAS3, G400MAX, SBLIVE, AHA 2940AU, IBM GXP75 60Gb (*2), IBM IBM GXP75 45Gb, Mitsumi FX48, Yamaha 4416S, Zyxel Prestige 200, 3Com 905C-TX On W98SE Lite, DX 8.1, PD 6.82Comment
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Yeah - all games had the options:Originally posted by TTCharon
Yeah, Hercules had their own mono-chrome standard, 720*something, pretty hi-rez for those days.
VGA (if you were lucky!)
EGA
CGA
MCGA (Good old IBM PS/2 there!)
Hercules
and Tandy! (Did anyone actually ever own a Tandy PC?)Comment
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Hehe,
And then came... VESA... Wow! With all the special VESA driver madness...
Tandy, that one always puzzled me, never even seen one.
How about the sound settings, LOL
0. None
1. PC Speaker
2. Adlib (I Actually owned one of those)
3. SoundBlaster (And this one too)
4. SoundBlaster Pro (And this)
5. Roland MT32
6. General MidiAbit BE6-2 (Rev 2.), P3-1000E@1050(10x105/3), 768mb Kingston 7.5ns CAS3, G400MAX, SBLIVE, AHA 2940AU, IBM GXP75 60Gb (*2), IBM IBM GXP75 45Gb, Mitsumi FX48, Yamaha 4416S, Zyxel Prestige 200, 3Com 905C-TX On W98SE Lite, DX 8.1, PD 6.82Comment
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was there ANY consumer cards that could do general midi and decent sound fx back then?Originally posted by TTCharon
Hehe,
How about the sound settings, LOL
0. None
1. PC Speaker
2. Adlib (I Actually owned one of those)
3. SoundBlaster (And this one too)
4. SoundBlaster Pro (And this)
5. Roland MT32
6. General Midi
the roland mt32 was for professional musicians, and was ubershit with sound fx(music only)
appearently the high-end gamer had multiple soundcards or an external synthesizer.Last edited by TdB; 2 January 2002, 09:49.This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.Comment
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I remember back on my P90 in 1994 that I had a Roland daughter card for my SB16Originally posted by TDB
was there ANY consumer cards that could do general midi and decent sound fx back then?
the roland mt32 was for professional musicians, and was ubershit with sound fx(music only)
appearently the high-end gamer had multiple soundcards or an external synthesizer.
. It wasn't too bad at 100 bucks...LOL. My SB Audgiy ran me $65 bucks this past septmeber...gotta love progress.
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Well I can't agree with you more, but quality controll has taken quite a hit during "the progress"Originally posted by GT98
...gotta love progress.Comment
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We'll do you mean the SB Live! then? Because the quality on my Audigy is very good....Well I can't agree with you more, but quality controll has taken quite a hit during "the progress"
Perhaps Matrox should start in the soundcard buissniess? Or perhaps the chipset buissniess!
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Maybe that post need some clarifying.
I'm not reffering only to Soundcards but to the whole business, there were less chance of getting a defect product 5 years ago then now...Comment
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there were a lot less of each stuff being made too[size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
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Well, that's true...Comment
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2 things:Originally posted by TTCharon
Yeah, Hercules had their own mono-chrome standard, 720*something, pretty hi-rez for those days.
1. Hercules had their own and it was most advanced gfx card when it was released. IBM own MDA can't do graphics at all, only character display modes. Hercules bring gfx to MDA monitors. you only need to change card and you were ready to GUIs... 1 year after that, IBM presented CGA, which resolution was much more limited but had colors. Negative thing was that, you had to change monitor. (Monitor had to be changed all the way to EGA, which was last card with digital monitor cable and DAC on monitor! )
2. Hercules isn't same anymore. It is now owned by Guillemot.
"Dippadai"
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TdB
well, IS matrox in troubles??? or are they just gonna deliever even better drivers/faster cards for the rest of us???Matrox Graphics Pull Out Of The Low End Capture MarketThis sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.Comment
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