The german site dedicated to Linux on PPC systems PPCNUX has benchmarked the 3D drivers available for MorphOS using the three generations of the famous FPS Quake, in order to test the quality of indipendently developed drivers on a non-mainstream OS running on non-mainstream PPC hardware. You can find the english version of the article here.
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That is true, they are rather old. Still though, considering that factor, and also the fact of MorphOS not being a larger mainstream OS and henceforth lacking developers, drivers, and so on, I would have to say those older cards really hold some decent ground on MorphOS. More power to them I figure. It's a step in the right direction, by far.
Considering what you said still, I wonder about newer cards. The article made it sound like it didn't support many newer cards yet, but it didn't really specify much at all. That would be nice to see new cards and/or some NVIDIA ones also for comparison sake.
Well, here's a small capatibility excerpt from http://3d.morphos-team.net/
The listed 3dfx cards were tested in combination with Pegasos 1 and Pegasos 2 mainboards as well as PowerUP accelerator hardware.
Voodoo 3
Voodoo 4
Voodoo 5
The following cards can only be used with a bplan Pegasos 1 or Pegasos 2 mainboard.
Radeon 7000
Radeon 7200
Radeon 7500
The 3D functionality of the graphics cards below is only available to owners of Pegasos 2 mainboards.
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9000
Radeon 9100
Radeon 9200
Radeon 9250
Edited 2005-11-13 03:57
Member since:2005-06-29
Well. MorphOS is sold for low-end hardware, so writing drivers for GeForce 7800's is a waste of time... Since they're using old cards they might as well use old games. When the Radeon 9000's were hott stuff, QIII would have been just released or not yet released (IIRC).
I really don't know why they tested QI though.. To show how it doesn't scale to higher resolutions?
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2005-07-06
ATI Radeon AIW 9000
ATI Radeon 9200
Voodoo 3500TV
What year are we in? These are old card and wont get you anywhere fast...