Matrox @ CeBIT and GDC

[Nappe1]

Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
I have discovered the secret new processor for the upcoming Matrox video card, and have risked life and limb to bring you this top secret document describing it! Now there will be no doubt as to the power of the new card!

hmmh... I see only a big red X on small piece of paper...

anyone else?

ADDED: And after quoting this, image name brings some glorious memories back to my mind. ahh, that was the time when king of sound was SID chip and king of graphics was VIC chip and everything all neat things were packed to brown plastic box with Sticker Commodore 64.

Also absolutely best game intro music was composed by Mike Riedel: Spy vs. Spy intro has it all!



(Best Game Soundtrack goes to Chris Huelsbeck from The Great Giana Sisters.)

how many of you still knows the legends like:
- Rob Hubbard
- Kris Hattlelid
- Jeroen Tel
- Chris Huelsbeck
this list is endless... (at least on Skandinavia C64 was huge success to Commodore. And still C64 is the all time Best Seller Computer in whole world. depending the source, about 40-60 million units of C64 was sold between 1983 and 1994.)


there you go... kinda retro off topic but big thanks to Jon P. Ingram bringing this... Now it's time to use SIDAmp plugin and play once more, the original Rob Hubbard's unbeliable classic, Skate Or Die Intro.

[TdB]

hey!
"The Great Giana Sisters" was my favorite C64 game, back then.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Wierd, seems to be working here even after clearing IE's cache. There are soooo many cool games for the C=64... back when having good graphics wasn't really an option, they were forced to provide decent gameplay.

hmmh... I see only a big red X on small piece of paper...

[Nappe1]

Jon: never mind... now it's works here too... propably my ISP's problem...

*Nappe1 Plays now Test Drive 2 The Duel Intro by Kris Hatlelid on SIDAmp.

[cbman]

Man....

C= 64 Ruled... I still have 2 or 3 of them around somewhere. I still use my NEC Commodore Monitor for the Playstation and N-64 and it still has pretty much the best picture to it that I have ever seen on a TV for a gaming system.

Of course its starting to get a little small at 12 or 13 inches... but I don't get that far away from it anyways.

I remember spending hours upon hours of the synthisized puta-puta-puta of a WWII subs diesel engines while creeping up on a convoy of japanese tankers in Up Periscope... Playing Barbarians where the easiest way to get it to the last few fights of the game was to do a right -> left firebutton combo on the stick to make your guy do a cool spin and behead move... I think you could if you timed it right get right to the second last guy of the game.

[Marshmallowman]

I had an atari and played Barbarian (multiplayer). The "spinning headslice" which could only be conteracted by the HeadButt.
(nice effects where a fountain of blood would spurt from the headless body as it dropped to it knees)

a good player would stay still why his opponent tried the "headslice" only to headbutted to death

a better player would just do a roll knocking his opponet over, and then leaping to the "headlslice" just as he stood up.....followed by howls of derisive laughter as the green troll walked over and collected the headless body and kicked the head off the screen

I played that game toooo much...

Bobble bubble, bruce lee,raid of moscow...ahh gameplay

[Schattenreiter]

Ummm. Guys?????

Do you remember? The Commodore64 turns 20 this Saint Patricks day!!!


Me for my part will take a C64 with me in my favorite pub and drink whiskey till I drop (as every year)

[DuRaNgO]

Hey, I'm gonna do that too, except I won't have a c-64 and it will be beer and it'll be Friday

[Nappe1]

Guess What??
The C64 has returned to home!

yep, I have just bought C64 + 1541 (The Toaster) + Cables + Full box of floppies + Few original games with price of 0.70€


*Nappe1 puts California Games loading and continues web surfing.

[snn47]

There may be hope

From http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/tol-06.03.02-006/

Each fifth exhibitor not in the CeBIT catalog

In the official catalog to the CeBIT all exhibitors are not represented. Coworkers of iX took the unmanageable fair catalog -- who became and counted CD ROM in this year away-rationalized -- more exactly under the magnifying glass only 6500 exhibitors. A spokeswoman of the management acknowledged on demand: " unfortunately are not more than 20 per cent of the exhibitors in the printed catalog considered. "
Proudly the German fair AG reported to align with the CeBIT the world-wide largest PC exhibition. To their specification more than 830,000 visitors came to Hanover, 85 per cent of them are specialized visitors to have been in the passed year. For 2002 the AG count on an easy decrease on approximately 800,000 guests. 8152 exhibitors from 58 countries divide the presentation surface of 432,000 square meters in this year according to fair AG. In the previous year the fair AG counted 8093 enterprises and mechanisms from 61 states ( un / ix) / ( tol / c't)

[NetDisruptor]

Re: There may be hope

Originally posted by snn47
There may be hope

Hope for what ????
Matrox to show at CeBIT?


Company: Matrox Video

Location: Hall 22, Stand C18

Stand phone: +49-511/89-51813

Stand fax: +49-511/89-51813

you mean that ^ kinda hope?

[Greebe]

NetD that's the Video division, not the Graphics division