The newly developed 3D Accelerated video cards from manufacturers
including Diamond will be avaliable in the fall. These cards will
ber built around NVidia's NV1 chipset. Also included on the card is a
wavetable sound card and a digital game port. The chip will be both
MPU-401 wavetable compatible in DOS and OPL-2 compatible in DOS. In
windows, it will use a protected mode wavetable design that rocks, but
yes for DOS games, full compatibility support is there including DOS
digital audio(i.e. Sound Blaster).
Papyrus in in the process of porting a version of Nascar that will run
under Win95 and be designed specifically for this chipset. An engineer
at NVidia says that this version will run much faster than the now
avaliable DOS version.
Prices should start in the $200 range for a card with 2 megs of DRAM
and the faster cards with 4 megs of VRAM will go for $400 or so. In
addition to games written specifically for the NV1 chip boards, they will
also support games ported form the SEGA Saturn System. Diamond plans to
make an announcement in late Sept about their card. It should be one of
the best earily cards, and will come with some nicely bundled software
that will take advantage of the NV1 chip.
The press releases are avaliable at:
[link lost in import]
--
Eric T. Busch
Emory University
