Re: Diamond's 3-D Board to Ship with VF Remix

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From: hu... Manu Kumar
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 00:00

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Hey with that kinda 3D horsepower and at 400bucks I'd expect the Nascar 
version for that board to fly faster than Daytona at the arcades with 
max. detail


Double the fps is truly dismal


 Dave Glue 
(dav...@interlog.com) wrote: : "Eric T. Busch" <ebu...@emory.edu> wrote:

: >Check out the press releases at:

: >http://www.diamondmm.com/news.html

: >The board will have wavetable audio, a digital game port, and 
: >two SEGA Saturn game ports.  It will be bundled with 
: >Sega's Virtua Fighter Remix, Descent: Destination Saturn, 
: >Absolute Zero, and Nascar Racing (Running at double the DOS 
: >frame rates!!).

: I didn't see anything related to "double" the rates- just that it
: "screams".  In fact, only double would be quite dissapointing- it
: means than SVGA still wouldn't be smooth on 486DX2's and low-end
: Pentiums or DX4's.  That doesn't quality as "screaming" for me.

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