Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK

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From: Geoff Winkless
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00

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"Mark Powell" <mark@salfrd.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:86pdkg$17j9$1@plato.salford.ac.uk...
> Because the machine I'm using doesn't have an AGP slot. The V3 1000 is a
> V3 2000 with 8MB of SGRAM (instead of 16MB of SDRAM) and one texture unit
> turned off, in software, when using the Glide and OpenGL drivers. A
> registry key can be used to turn the texture unit back on, which makes the
> card just as fast as a V3 2000 and in some cases even slightly faster. It
> can't go to as high res., but who's machine can really get decent
framerates
> above 1024x768? For �38 inc. (Micro Mart) they are a snip.

remember that the velocity 100 also doesn't have a tv-out.

Geoff

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From: "Geoff Winkless" <geoff-at-farmline-dot-com@127.0.0.1>
Subject: Re: Voodoo 2 availability in the UK
Date: 2000/01/27
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