Rendition was a maker of 3D graphics chipsets in the mid- to late-90's. They were known for products such as the Vérité 1000 and Vérité 2x00 and for being one of the first 3D chipset makers to directly work with Quake developer John Carmack to make a hardware-accelerated version of the game (vQuake). Rendition's major competitor at the time was 3Dfx. Zombies attacking the player. ... John Carmack is a widely recognized and influential game programmer. ... 3dfx Interactive was a company which specialized in the manufacturing of cutting-edge 3D graphics processing units and, later, graphics cards. ...

Rendition's v1000 chipset, released in 1996, was one of the first consumer graphics card to integrate an embedded RISC processor to perform operations independent of the main CPU, somewhat like pixel shaders and vertex shaders of current 3D chipsets. vQuake, the version of Quake optimized for Rendition's chipset, utilized this RISC processor to render the classic 'Life' computer simulation onto the texture map used for transporters. Released in time for Christmas 1996, vQuake made a name for Rendition. The port featured billinear filtering, per-polygon mip-mapping, and edge anti-aliasing, an impressive set of features for the time. A chipset is a group of integrated circuits (chips) that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product. ... This article is about the computer architecture. ... Vertex and pixel (or fragment) shaders are computer programs that run on a graphics card, executed once for every vertex or pixel in a specified 3D mesh. ... Vertex and pixel (or fragment) shaders are shaders that run on a graphics card, executed once for every vertex or pixel in a specified 3D mesh. ... Gosper Glider Gun creating gliders. The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. ...

Games known to make use of the Vérité engine:

• Battle Arena Toshinden
• CART Precision Racing
• Dark Vengeance
• Dawn of Darkness
• Defiance
• Descent 2
• EF2000 2.0
• Flight Unlimited
• Flying Nightmares 2
• Formula 1
• Grand Prix Legends
• Heavy Gear
• Heavy Gear 2
• Hexen 2
• Interstate '76
• Interstate '82
• MDK
• Mechwarrior 2
• Monster Truck Madness 2
• Myth: The Fallen Lords
• Myth II: Soulblighter
• Nascar 2
• Nascar 3
• Quake
• Quake 2
• Rebel Moon
• Resident Evil
• Scorched Planet
• Screamer Rally (Bleifuss Rally)
• Sub Culture
• Team Apache
• Tomb Raider
• Valhalla
• Whiplash (Fatal Racing)

Rendition built this thorough list of supported games by encouraging developers large and small to make use of their free APIs. Rendition originally provided developers with Speedy3D, a DOS-based API, as most game development in 1995-96 was still centered around DOS. Later, Rendition released their Win32 version of the API, branded RRedline. Like 3Dfx, Rendition was one of the first 3D chipset makers to see value of homebrew programming by releasing a free programming API to the public. In much the same manner as 3Dfx, Rendition also hosted a programming competition called "Take it to the RRedline" to allow homebrew programmers to show off their abilities (as well as Rendition's product). An in-game screenshot of Myth: The Fallen Lords taken from the Myth II engine. ... API redirects here. ...

Unfortunately, Rendition was always one step behind other competitors. The 2D engine added to the v1000 (and kept for the v2200) was more of an afterthought to offer features competitive with the S3 ViRGE and the Matrox Mystique s220, but it turned into a liability as consumers discovered its slow performance and various display oddities. In addition, Rendition could never seem to keep up with competitors like the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics and the Nvidia Riva 128 in terms of performance. The v2200 was late to market, performed no better than last-generation chips, and had poor OpenGL performance. The Virtual Reality Graphics Engine (ViRGE) graphics chipset was one of the first 2D/3D accelerators designed for the mass market. ... Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The RIVA 128 was a 3D graphics chipset manufactured by NVIDIA. Following several less successful products, it was the first product to gain NVIDIA widespread consumer recognition. ...

The company was eventually purchased by Micron, who kept the development team intact as a source of embedded graphics solutions for their own line of motherboard drivers. ASRock main board - KT400A chipset A motherboard, also known as a main board, mainboard, logic board or system board, and sometimes abbreviated as mobo, is the central or primary circuit board making up a complex electronic system, such as a computer. ...

Product Highlights: v2200

• 55 million pixels per second fill rate
• 2 million triangles per second (edge walk)
• 550,000 triangles per second
• 100 MHz SGRAM / SDRAM memory (up to 16MB)
• Complete on-chip triangle setup
• Asynchronous rendering with separate setup, triangle and pixel engines
• Richest set of advanced 3D features
• • True per-pixel perspective correction
  • Sub-pixel / sub-texel positioning accuracy
  • Flat and Gourad shading
  • Z-buffering(optional)
  • Anti-aliasing
  • Comprehensive texture mapping support inc. video textures
  • MIP-mapping
  • Bi-linear and tri-linear filtering
  • Support for texture animation, morphing and other special effects
  • Complete set of blending functions including alpha blending, fog, chroma-keying
• Outstanding video features
• • 60 fps full-screen MPEG-2 video playback
  • Video input port
  • Digital video output port
  • "SofTV" for flicker-free TV output
• Complete 2D acceleration support including VESA2.0 and VGA
• AGP-66 / 33 MHz PCI bus interface
• Asynchronous DMA support
• Windows(R)95 (DirectDraw, Direct3D)/Windows NT 4.0 drivers

Trivia

• Rendition's headquarters was located next to Fry's Santa Clara's parking lot.
• The trouble Rendition caused John Carmack in developing vQuake led him to refuse to support any more proprietary graphics APIs. Ironically, this drove Carmack to develop GL Quake, which was largely responsible for Rendition's downfall.
• During Micron's aquisition of Rendition, the company tried to convince Micron that continuing graphics development was in their best interests. They announced the v3000, laughingly named the "RRedline Multimedia Accelerator" (RMA). They released a series of Facts of the Week detailing creative new features, but the card never surfaced.
• Rendition's "Conspiracy Project" combined a Fujitsu FXG-1 "Pinolite" geometry processor with a v2200 core to create a graphics processor with a full transform and lighting (T&L) graphics engine years before the Nvidia GeForce 256. The card was never brought to market. The only thing more laughable than the pairing of a geometry processor with such an underpowered graphics chip was the fact that 3dlabs beat Rendition to the punch: the first consumer graphics card to feature a Transform and Lighting engine was the Permedia 2 (integrated Glint Delta processor on-chip).

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External links

• Full system specs of Rendition Vérité v2200