oldsk00l
04-30-03, 01:19 AM
I have been perusing various sites, er actually graves it seems like, when I figured, why not come to an nVidia site and ask how far back do you go in the "nVidiot" scene?
The reason I am asking this is because I'm hoping to run into people I use to associate with from back in "the day" who may be using a different alias now.
Namely, I'll start off:
I opened my first nVidia product in the form of the STB Velocity 128 back in 1997. I then proceeded to search for drivers for this card back when nVidia's site looked much like a small tiny video vendor. In fact, they only had an Alpha OpenGL driver that only managed to scrap along at 25 fps in Quake2 at 640x480.
I then moved onto some yahoo searches and stumbled onto RivaZone. Formerly the RUG. I believe a unique gentleman named Felby started RUG which merged into RivaZone later, which was also associated with (and is still running) d128.com
It's interesting to see, see tweak3d.com's founder I remember watching as a young man with some neat autoexec.cfg's that helped Riva128's look morelike Voodoo's in Quake2, and he started a site called tweak3d, which was at d128.com/tweak3d or /dantech
I have seen Brian Hook while at id announce new OGL drivers on the RZ, and watched nVidia fly up all the webmaster's for Riva sites to their HQ to show them the GeForce256 before it was announced.
I found myself when GeForceFX get announced asking "Where is nVidia of past? What have they turned into? Where is the vigor they had during the TNT days and TNT2 Ultra days?"
They turned into a company just like Intel, driven now by margins simply because they got so huge. But I can see why. The massive base they use to have is now gone. The communities of users they had are now scattered from dozens into hundreds into thousands. Reason being? These early sites splintered and the webmasters all got pissed at each other and starting their own sites.
What I'd love to see is the response we'd get from nVidia by pooling back together.
This "core group" of users that nVidia will never forget has to be out there somewhere, but what happened to them all???
They use to be so easy to find.
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Also it was interesting that nVidia's core driver programmers use to visit these bbz all the time. Someone would break down and bitch about an OGL problem and Dwight Diercks, Nick Triantos, and David Kirk would all be in threads consoling users. nVidia use to be really in touch with the public. Now they're in touch with Tomshardware and anandtech
The reason I am asking this is because I'm hoping to run into people I use to associate with from back in "the day" who may be using a different alias now.
Namely, I'll start off:
I opened my first nVidia product in the form of the STB Velocity 128 back in 1997. I then proceeded to search for drivers for this card back when nVidia's site looked much like a small tiny video vendor. In fact, they only had an Alpha OpenGL driver that only managed to scrap along at 25 fps in Quake2 at 640x480.
I then moved onto some yahoo searches and stumbled onto RivaZone. Formerly the RUG. I believe a unique gentleman named Felby started RUG which merged into RivaZone later, which was also associated with (and is still running) d128.com
It's interesting to see, see tweak3d.com's founder I remember watching as a young man with some neat autoexec.cfg's that helped Riva128's look morelike Voodoo's in Quake2, and he started a site called tweak3d, which was at d128.com/tweak3d or /dantech
I have seen Brian Hook while at id announce new OGL drivers on the RZ, and watched nVidia fly up all the webmaster's for Riva sites to their HQ to show them the GeForce256 before it was announced.
I found myself when GeForceFX get announced asking "Where is nVidia of past? What have they turned into? Where is the vigor they had during the TNT days and TNT2 Ultra days?"
They turned into a company just like Intel, driven now by margins simply because they got so huge. But I can see why. The massive base they use to have is now gone. The communities of users they had are now scattered from dozens into hundreds into thousands. Reason being? These early sites splintered and the webmasters all got pissed at each other and starting their own sites.
What I'd love to see is the response we'd get from nVidia by pooling back together.
This "core group" of users that nVidia will never forget has to be out there somewhere, but what happened to them all???
They use to be so easy to find.
[edit]
Also it was interesting that nVidia's core driver programmers use to visit these bbz all the time. Someone would break down and bitch about an OGL problem and Dwight Diercks, Nick Triantos, and David Kirk would all be in threads consoling users. nVidia use to be really in touch with the public. Now they're in touch with Tomshardware and anandtech