"Diamond Buys Orchid."... OGR

Hmm, Well that stinks on ice. I love my OR3D. I can't stand Diamond anything. (I had a bad experience with them.....a few times). So looks like I can forget the OR3D II and start leaning towards the Canopus stuff now. Merger-Mania takes another one.

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>Of interest to gamers: >from [link lost in import] >News for May 11, 1998 >Diamond Multimedia announced today that they will be acquiring Micronics and >Orchid, also a supplier of Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo 2-based PC *** boards. >Diamond Multimedia intends to continue the Orchid Righteous 3D brand in the >computer *** market and to coordinate the marketing of the Righteous 3D and >Monster 3D brands to their respective targets markets worldwide. Diamond will >acquire Micronics at a price of $2.45 per share in cash or approximately $31.6 >million. [6:10 PM ET]

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>Well that stinks on ice. I love my OR3D. I can't stand Diamond >anything. (I had a bad experience with them.....a few times). So >looks like I can forget the OR3D II and start leaning towards the >Canopus stuff now. My thoughts exactly. Until I upgrade to Voodoo2, I guess I'll be sticking with the current release of the Orchid Righteous I drivers as well, out of concern that any newer driver updates will be "Diamond-ized" ... :( -- Mystic "Six Degrees of Freedom": http://www.pconline.com/~mystic/6dof/ (for ThrustMaster FLCS/TQS HOTAS setups) * capitals in reply address are a Spam Avoidance maneuver *

Amazing. I would suspect Diamond is trying to level the playing field to compete with Creative Labs. ------------------------ Sean Tudor Sydney, Australia ------------------------ This is my cannon, this is my gun One is for bandits, and one is for fun ------------------------ vicious at magna dot com dot au

I agree....it's a damn shame...

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>Hmm, >Well that stinks on ice. I love my OR3D. I can't stand Diamond >anything. (I had a bad experience with them.....a few times). So >looks like I can forget the OR3D II and start leaning towards the >Canopus stuff now. >Merger-Mania takes another one. >>Of interest to gamers: >>from [link lost in import] >>News for May 11, 1998 >>Diamond Multimedia announced today that they will be acquiring Micronics

and >>Orchid, also a supplier of Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo 2-based PC *** boards. >>Diamond Multimedia intends to continue the Orchid Righteous 3D brand in the >>computer *** market and to coordinate the marketing of the Righteous 3D and >>Monster 3D brands to their respective targets markets worldwide. Diamond will >>acquire Micronics at a price of $2.45 per share in cash or approximately $31.6 >>million. [6:10 PM ET]

>I would suspect Diamond is trying to level the playing field to >compete with Creative Labs. I think Diamond already had the playing field sloping pretty much its way. :-) Stolen from the USMC. Jarheads from the early fifties will remember that any recruit in boot camp who made the unforgivable mistake of calling his rifle a "gun" would be ordered to march up and down the barracks, M1 at right shoulder arms, while pointing alternately to the weapon and to his crotch and repeating over and over and over and over, "This is my rifle, This is my gun. This is for shooting, This is for fun." Neil