• graphics powerhouse S3, Inc., the ViRGE was S3's first foray into 3D-graphics. The S3/Virge was the successor to the successful Trio64V+. ViRGE/325 was pin compatible...
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    S3 Graphics, Ltd. (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of...
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    filtering. The 2D graphics core was later used in the ViRGE/DX and ViRGE/GX. Like the corresponding ViRGE chips, the 64V2 also came in /DX and /GX variants...
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    Video 3400 S3-Vision968 VLB/PCI Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 S3 ViRGE PCI Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro S3 ViRGE DX PCI Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 S3 ViRGE VX PCI Diamond...
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    graphics chipsets designed by S3. At the 1998 E3 Expo S3 introduced the first Savage product, Savage3D. Compared to its ViRGE-derived predecessor (Trio3D)...
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    messages in VGA mode. S3 Graphics. "VC963-3D (S3 ViRGE/DX) User Manual". Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. The S3 ViRGE supports 132×43 and 132×25...
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    2D performance was measured as excellent, beating its peers such as the S3 ViRGE-based and the ATI Mach64-based video cards. Mystique was Matrox's most...
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    (3D-only boards) ATI Rage series (Pro was the most recent at the time) S3 ViRGE, Savage 3D Rendition Vérité V1000 & V2x00 PowerVR PCX2 Comparison of Nvidia...
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    world, notable failed attempts for low-cost 3D graphics chips included the S3 ViRGE, ATI Rage, and Matrox Mystique. These chips were essentially previous-generation...
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    also emulate various video cards such as the ATI Mach64 GX and the S3 Trio32/64/Virge series. Voodoo cards are also emulated and added support for Voodoo...
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    features) than competitors such as the Matrox Millennium, ATI Rage, and S3 ViRGE. Only 3DFX's Voodoo Graphics was faster, but unlike the 3DFX Voodoo, the...
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    3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX/2. Some early AGP boards used graphics processors built around PCI and...
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  • to as the world's first "graphics decelerator" since the low-performing S3 ViRGE, the latest GMA generation should ease many of those concerns for the casual...
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    490XCDT—the final entries in the Satellite Pro 400 series—make use of S3's ViRGE 2MX 3D chipset, allowing for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.: 53  Initial...
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  • PCem, a specialized emulator of the IBM PC architecture, can emulate a S3 ViRGE/DX graphics device, which supports Direct3D 3, and a 3dfx Voodoo2, which...
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    attempts to produce affordable products with the ATI Rage, Matrox Mystique, S3 ViRGE, and Rendition Vérité. As 3D graphics libraries such as DirectX and OpenGL...
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    of 2D and 3D acceleration. While these cards, such as Matrox Mystique, S3 ViRGE and ATI 3D Rage, offered inferior 3D acceleration, their lower cost and...
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  • add support for 3D graphics cards such as the Rendition Verite and the S3 ViRGE. Fatal Racing has audio CD tracks for a realistic music performance. It...
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    appealed to OEM system builders for years, with boards such as the S3 Graphics ViRGE VX-based STB Velocity 3D and Nvidia RIVA 128-based Velocity 128 being...
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    with hardware acceleration became popular during the 1990s, including the S3 ViRGE, the Matrox Mystique, and the Voodoo Graphics; though earlier examples...
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  • wide availability of low cost 3D graphics hardware. By 1998, even the S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator was substantially faster than the fastest Pentium...
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  • available with the Number Nine Reality 332FX graphics card, that utilized the S3 ViRGE chipset. The game's music was composed by Allister Brimble. A reviewer...
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  • 1999; 13.3- or 14-inch LCD (1024x768), Pentium II (266-366); CD/DVD-rom, S3 Virge/MX (4 MB); 2 RAM slots, up to 256 MB. Magnesium top cover and speakers...
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  • III S3 ViRGE CyberVision64 Zorro III S3 Trio64 CyberVisionPPC Permedia 2 DraCo Altais DracoBus Symbios Logic 77C32BLT DraCo Altais Plus DracoBus S3 Trio...
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  • emerging triangle polygon-based 2D/3D accelerators such as the low-cost S3 Graphics ViRGE, Matrox Mystique, ATI Rage, and Rendition Vérité V1000 among other...
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  • including anti aliasing and tri linear mip mapping. In the same vein as the S3 ViRGE chip, the Warp 5 was pin-compatible with a 2D-only predecessor. Technologies...
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    The Tecra 8100 also included a floppy disk, CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, S3 Savage MX graphic adapter, two PC Card Type II or one PC Card Type III, Card...
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    430VX Socket 7 Pentium MMX (P55C) 166, 200, 233 MHz 66 MHz SDRAM 2 64 MB S3 Virge DX 2 MB None onboard 3 ISA, 3 PCI 43.69 cm 20.32 cm 44.45 cm 11.3 to 13...
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  • "letter-of-intent" for S3 Inc. (later S3 Graphics Co.) to buy substantially all assets and intellectual property of Number Nine. By mid 2000, S3 had completed...
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    2024-01-04 3D Acceleration Comparison Ep11: Mechwarrior 2 - 3DFX / PowerVR / S3 Virge / ATI Rage / Matrox Mys, retrieved 2024-01-04 The OpenGL Organization....
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