Microsoft's Direct3D Team Mounts Old GPUs on Their Office Wall

My first was an EGA card but I can't remember the manufacturer.

The first one I owned that at the time was legit awesome? Orchid ProDesigner II.
 
Love this. Hoping someone get's there a posts some better shots before it's gone.

My 1st was actually a SOC, GTIA in a Atari 400-man that thing was awesome. Next was another SOC in a Tandy 1000ex that gave 320x200 in 16 colors totally cool at the time also. After that it was what ever cards I found in old cases and scavenged, voodoo, Hercules, etc. After that a slew of ATI cards I don't remember until I tried something called an 8800GT. Unfortunately I don't have anything older than a 560TI lying around anymore.
 
MrRuckus said:
While the S3 Virge found in 1000's of OEMs at the time was pretty trash, the Redition based cards were not bad. I had a Diamond Stealth S220 that competed with my brothers Cirrus Logic 5446 2MB 2D card / Monster3D 3Dfx Combo.

The first single card that wowed me was the Diamond Viper V550 RivaTNT. Riva128 was garbage, but the RivaTNT competed with everything else quality wise at the time when the Riva128 cut corners. Great memories!
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Yeah I remember the Riva TNT. With that I could play Quake II at 1024x768 (or was it 800x600?) and it looked great. The early days saw big jumps in performance from generation to generation, unlike now.
 
Also makes me remember Carmack and his plan file about the perfectly great multi platform API OpenGL and the pain that would be caused from dragging developers through a new API (Direct 3D).

I especially remember this line from him -

"I am hoping that the vendors shipping second generation cards in the coming year can be convinced to support OpenGL. If this doesn't happen early on and there are capable cards that glquake does not run on, then I apologize, but I am taking a little stand in my little corner of the world with the hope of having some small influence on things that are going to effect us for many years to come."

http://rmitz.org/carmack.on.opengl.html
 
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