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Thanks a lot for explaining... makes me unerstand the hardware a little more and I finally know what the SCSI-interface was used for. Model 3 is just such an obscure piece of hardware, makes it even more interesting. Some say it's because it was Military-grade hardware, so not a lot of info got into...

I don't see much of a difference between Step 1/1.5 and Step 2.x in general. L.A. machine guns maybe looks somewhat ahead, but it seems Model 3 was nowhere near used to full capacity, especially Step 2.x. (I mean where did all the extra fillrate go to? And what about that huge amount of available me...

Wow, thanks for clearing that up! I was wondering about that for a long time... So pixel- and texture-fillrates have been upgraded for Step 2.x. What about geometry/vertices? BTW, is the CPU-board found in Sega's Model 3 also part of the original Real 3D-pro image generator, or was the CPU-board com...

I would be sad if this forum was gone. Unfortunately, I can't contribute much as I can't even afford a PC to play Supermodel3. But I was reading here for some time, even the old threads before the restart... And I enjoy reading about the technical details. Discord is not a substitute, as it is not p...

Hello again, sry for asking a lot of technical stuff lately, but I don't know a better place to ask about this. This time, I'd like to learn a bit more about the differences in the video-boards between Model 3 Step 1, Step 1.5 and Step 2. 1) To my understanding, the video boards are clocked differen...

Polygon strips usually already happen when you create the 3d-models. There should be no need to optimize this later, they share vertices automatically at the modelling process. I mean they have a TON of memory (RAM, VRAM, CROM, VROM and more) on the Model 3, so you're right that they can get away wi...

I always thought that the beginner's Track of Daytona 2 - Battle on the Edge had some pretty elaborate geometry, plus the 40 cars. The first track here, I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-hMCUT9F0 (That track was removed in the power edition and replaced by a much more boring track, IMO) BTW...

Could you check Daytona 2 and L.A. Machineguns? I agree vertices are more important. I only asked for polygons/sec because for comparability reasons, since there's lots of hardware from those days where there are only polygon rates made known. For triangle polygons, vertex count and polygon count sh...

Please do that! I would be interested in the results (even if I can't test it on my own as I can't afford a graphics card). I put it in my calender for wednesday. :) The documentation says those 16.500 polys are rasterized and z-buffered. But those numbers seem so low to me. As a big fan of the Drea...

Ahoy! We all know that Model 3 is a beast when it comes to memory and bandwith with all the masked ROM and RAM. But how many polygons per second can it actually do at it's ~60fps? In the product overview, it says that the Real3d-pro 1000 is capable of processing 16.500 polygons for each frame at 60f...