Hercules thriller consipracy

[chris]

I read in pc gamer about a new card the "hercules thriller conspiracy".
Interesting. Seems it is based on the redition verite 2200. Though unlike
normal rendition cards it has onboard geometry processing. No matter
what cpu you run this board with, the 3d runs at the same speed. (30 fps
on quake 2). Sounds perfect for my Cyrix 6x86L 200 or any older socket 7 system.

[Sihan Goi]

chris (bj...@scn.org) wrote:
: I read in pc gamer about a new card the "hercules thriller conspiracy".

Yes it does sound pretty interesting if your CPU is a Pentium class or
belowe ie Socket7 CPUs. It won't benifit the Slot1 CPUs at all though.
Also, performance is questionable too, as the Rendition Verite V2200 chip
is fillrate limited rather than polygonrate limited, so the addition of
the onboard Geometry processor will not boost 3D performance to current
generation video card performance (Voodoo2/RIVA128/i740) much less next
generation chips(Savage3D/TNT/PVRSG). In the first place, it wasn't meant
to compete with these chipsets I guess, and will be interesting only to
very budget conscious users. If pricing is right (<$100 retail) it might
be good, but if not, it might be a big flop.

ciao!

[Skid]

Yours is exactly the system the Conspiracy was designed for. It's supposed to be
released someyime this month for $149 for a 9-meg card (one for the geometry
chip.)

chris wrote in message <6o3pqc$q6r$1...@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu>...

[Michael Dean]

On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 18:15:49 -0700, "chris" <bj...@scn.org> wrote:

>I read in pc gamer about a new card the "hercules thriller conspiracy".
>Interesting. Seems it is based on the redition verite 2200. Though unlike
>normal rendition cards it has onboard geometry processing. No matter
>what cpu you run this board with, the 3d runs at the same speed. (30 fps
>on quake 2). Sounds perfect for my Cyrix 6x86L 200 or any older socket 7 system.
>

Go to www.bjorn3d.com

They're all renditionaholics over there...you should find out some
interesting tids.

[Ren Hoek]

On or about Thu, 9 Jul 1998 18:15:49 -0700, I saw "chris" <bj...@scn.org> had written all sorts of foolishness, (to
which I began my reply by stating "You fat, bloated, Idiot !!!") :

-->I read in pc gamer about a new card the "hercules thriller conspiracy".
-->Interesting. Seems it is based on the redition verite 2200. Though unlike
-->normal rendition cards it has onboard geometry processing. No matter
-->what cpu you run this board with, the 3d runs at the same speed. (30 fps
-->on quake 2). Sounds perfect for my Cyrix 6x86L 200 or any older socket 7 system.
-->
Of course that would mean you have to deal with NO Customer service and poorly written drivers for the rest of the video
cards life- I would stay the hell away from Hercules ANYTHING if I were you- I sure wish I had !!!!!!!!!

"WHAT IS IT, MAN!?!?!?!"

[Ren Hoek]

On or about Sun, 12 Jul 1998 14:58:11 -0700, I saw "chris" <bj...@scn.org> had written all sorts of foolishness, (to

which I began my reply by stating "You fat, bloated, Idiot !!!") :

---> SNIP<---
-->Why do you have your reply message thing set up like this? You call everyone you
-->reply to a fat bloated idiot? so silly. The rest of the message was basically pleasant......
-->
Ummmm- call it "being in character" if you will.
It is one of RenHoek's famous (obviously not famous enough) lines...
No harm meant- and I might add out of my posting like this for the last three months, you are the FIRST to ask why.
Congratulations your $1 million dollar prize should show up with Ed McMahon next Thursday at around 9am.
And ...yeah, I suppose it is a lil silly :P

"WHAT IS IT, MAN!?!?!?!"