Quite silence

[Amiga Blitter]

Hey What's going up?
There is a lot of silence around the murc.
there are no flamed discussion. What the future of Matrox?
Where is the P2, Fusion, condor, condor II?
Where are Haig, Ant, ANTIANT, VIGILANT and so on?
Is it time to change our vendor? NVIDIA, ATI, XGI VOLARI?

And the forgotten plans of the Matrox and Amiga Inc. Partership?
it seems that the A1 have got the ATI firm. And the Matrox GPU UNIT for the console?

And where are MY DX9 (Partially) drivers?????????

Where are my 429 € for the OEM Parhelia?
Yes, now i andurstand that all these thing are not crystal ball. Maybe are only big ball. Big like a Mountain whit a corona of truly, dense, smoke.



AB

[Sasq]

Ant is busy with a new job, in case you havn't bothered to read, I'm covering for him while he is working is butt off.

You know full well what the condor's were. if not try the search function.

Fusion, no one will probably ever know, and by the time we do (if we do) it will be an footnote to history.

[Mehen]

well, i have a friend that ordered the volari duo, when he gets it maybe he'll give me something on it to post, im expecting solid performance, except the drivers will probably hinder it in a few instances.

[AntiAnt]

Well, I still lurk around regularly.
I think VigilAnt is busy with his new inflatable girlfriend.

The future of Matrox is desktop apps, multi-display cards, and medical uses. Currently, there are no plans to try to compete with ATI and nVidia in the gaming market.
P2 is not likely to happen (at least not any time soon)
Condor was released years ago.
Fusion was abandoned long ago.

[GNEP]

Quite Silence

It's because everybody's on strike

[az]

ROFLOL GNEP

AZ

[Twilight]

What? No Pharhelia2?

I was hoping to get an updated Pharhelia in 2004. I bought a P650 this summer because I could not afford a Pharhelia right now.

DVDMax is the only reason I still stick with Matrox, but I really want something faster than the Pharhelia next year.

Twilight

[Belwarrior]

Twilight, if you really look at the way Matrox releases Products, you can hope (well we can always hope) that Q3 2004 they will release an updated Parhelia (maybe on a smaller die process and maybe clocked a bit higher - not sure whether the bending feature will be removed though) and maybe Q4 2005 you might see a ParheliaII if Matrox want to still stay in the business

[Admiral]

Almost forgot this forum existed

[bsdgeek]

Originally posted by Belwarrior
Twilight, if you really look at the way Matrox releases Products, you can hope (well we can always hope) that Q3 2004 they will release an updated Parhelia (maybe on a smaller die process and maybe clocked a bit higher - not sure whether the bending feature will be removed though) and maybe Q4 2005 you might see a ParheliaII if Matrox want to still stay in the business

Not only will Banding™ be present, but Parhelia II will come complete with fully-featured DirectX® 7 drivers and a stylish "CHUMP" sticker!

[Greebe]

Matrox today isn't the same Matrox we use to care about.

if that's not bad, it'll get even worse

[Nappe1]

I doubt that we will see competitive Gaming Matrox at any time soon. (here it could mean decades, if ever.)

PC gaming market is starting to turn just like Commodore 64 and Amiga did near the end of their glorious ultimate gaming platform times. All interesting and different games, games with new ideas, are released at first consoles and PC gets crappy conversion after that. This is the first sign that game makers are leaving PCs to minority. Eventually, PC will shrink to be special simulation platform and all fun games goes to consoles.

what this all has to do with graphic cards business? well, how long you think that ppl are willing to put 400 bucks every year to get "Yet Another Bazooka Chase (now with rifles! ammo not included.)" to run on their computers? with the price of goof (hmmh I originally ment Good, but goof seems to fit even better.) GFX card you get 2-4 state of the art gaming consoles here right now.

Here's a Fact: PC gaming is dying. slowly but surely. I don't like it but I have seen this happen for C64 as well as Amiga, so I am pretty sure this is the beigining of the end. First sign is that platform gets only one sort of games and if you look at PC games, about 8 of 10 are deadly serious killing/shooting/strategy games.