HUH?

Matrox makes high end 2D workstation cards for multi-monitors.

I suppose they could be used for game making, but the main that I see is for digital imaging, such as used in doctor's offices, design labs for equipment (hardware), and such. They are built more on the idea of exacting black and white images rather than color images, though they can show color. An example would be their "TheaterVue" series which with a 8 or 10 bit frame buffer will show 256 or 1024 simultaneous shades of gray. Not exactly what you're looking for in a gaming card.

Dont forget all the highend Matrox 3D cards.. still widely used in a range of workstations. In terms of 2D and multi head they are still one of the most popular cards in the finance houses (share dealing rooms etc) for the multi head support.

But no... from a gamers perspective Matrox has nothing you would be interested in...

Show off I started out on CGA graphics but my first machine with a deidicated graphics card was a 2mb Cirrus Logic... those were the days...

They certainly were, but judging by my lack of hair I don't think there’re coming back any time soon.

Mine was an onboard 1MB VGA by Cirrus Logic. I think it's under my bed collecting dust. Old Packard Bell POS.

Heh, specs? Why not...

486DX2-50MHz
8MB RAM
1MB Cirrus Logic Video Onboard
420MB Seagate HDD

Wow, what a rig.

not that i can remember or even knew back then but i hate to think what was in my firsdt comp and old IBM which had a 386 proc in it. i know it took an age to load windows(3.1) and had way less than 500MB hard disk space. god knows what the video proc was but it played a few 2-d games which kept me entertained for hours. i know one game that ran pretty well on it had minimum specs of a 386/25mhz CPU, 580k free base memory , 384k expanded memory, 256k vga card, dos 5.0 and 10 megabytes of hard drive space. the game was called power drive and i still have the box.

don't want to derail the thread but to think how little it took to run such a great game.

That does stir the memory. Matrox did supply 3D gaming cards years ago, along with 3DFX and a bunch of other long lost companies.

As to old computers, my first personal one was a Commodore 64. No hard drive, of course. Only the government and really big companies could afford them.

I still have that same laptop. You selling it any time soon? P.S. I use it to code C++ while at class. Works well for that and.... um. Does it support Vista?

I still have that same laptop. You selling it any time soon? P.S. I use it to code C++ while at class. Works well for that and.... um. Does it support Vista?

u know I wish I did have it.. it was certainly a piece of kit!

I was just impressed how much more it could do than the Specrum 48k i really started on... God I guess 32 is long enough to have lived through quite a revolution... 8O

As for comments about seeing another card maker I agree with other posts that it would be nice to see. And if they could release the specs and the driver source all the better!!

I was an avid Matrox fan and was able to play all modern games (modern at the time) on my Matrox Millennium g450. The dual head support for games was just becoming more popular, and if you had a Matrox, you could take advantage of great stuff, like Star Trek Armada. And ya 32 years old is long enough to live though quite the tech change. Im only 22, but started very early, with old stuff lol.

The earliest PC computer game I can remeber by name is Jill of the Jungle. I remember a bunch of older games for the Mac and attari systems though. I have used the old 8088 graphical display system, and worked around main frame and tape systems. The systems are actualy still running and doing their job though ,... Takes up 2 rooms, the system does.

I remember trying to free up enough conventional memory just to play a game. I had a floppy boot disk that ran the base DOS system files to I had roughly 600k or more conventional so I could play games. Hehe...