sO WHAT IS matrox??
Im assuming its a low end graphic card?
Who is it made by

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

oh, so poeple use em to make games and all?

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.

basically they are more for professional use where image quality comes first and speed last.   as others have said for 2-d only.

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...

Awww man, my first graphic card was a Matrox Millennium linked to an Orchid 4MB accelerator card so I could play Quake 2 and Half-life.  8)

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...

my first was a matrox g200 (could also be g100   ) and it had  :!: 8 mb video memory 8O  8O  8O  
after that i changed to a geforce two...

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

 
we really should have made better backups
 
it shocks me to think that the average (256Mb) graphics card nowdays has more memory than my first 4 computers put together (RAM and Graphics Memory combined!).

 
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.

Ok... as we seem to be playing top trumps  
 
Ollivetti 8088 laptop with  
512Kb ram  
EGA graphics  
low density floppy drive  
and wiat for it... a whole 20Mb hard disk!!!
 
Did me my first year of my IT degree tooled up with DOS 4, Turbo Pascal and a copy of Word Perfect 5.1
 
Lol.. the screen was so crap I had to work with the lights turned out to see it  8O  
 
Then went to:
386SX 25 with 4Mb ram and the 2Mb Cirrus.
486DX2 66 with 16Mb Ram and 8Mb card (cant remember what but it was a POS)

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.

Yeah... sorry we did go a bit off topic. Perhaps it shows what Matrox is to most of us now tho... part of our techno heritage...

 
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.

My bad, sorry 'bout that    and whilst I no longer have one the Matrox brand will always hold a special place in my heart. ( would'nt it be cool if they produced just one kickass 3D gamers card though, just to shake up Ati/Nvidia fanset    )

 
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?
 
Hmmm You might need a mark II unobtainium graphic chip for that  

 
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!!