One of the rarest pieces in my collection here. This unreleased card is the result of the Cirrus Logic - 3DO/M2 collaboration mentioned in various gaming/PC magazines of early 1996. Apparently Cirrus Logic had become interested in competing with higher tier graphics cards and entered into a licensing agreement with the 3DO Company for the M2 technology. This card is not like the 3DO Blaster card created by Creative Labs, which was essentially a 3DO console on a PC card. This is a graphics card utilizing the M2 BDA ASIC coupled with Cirrus Logic's graphics controller. This is the same chip that was going to be put into the M2 video game console. It's an odd piece of gaming history to be sure. ;-) Here are some articles about the deal:
Very nice, would love to have one of those myself. Don't ever remember seeing this card before but i do remember reading about it in the mags you posted scans from.
This is odd. I ran V-Glider in debug mode on both FZ-21S1/FZ-35s and the Cirrus card and with almost identical graphical settings I was seeing very similar frame rates.
I had it running in a machine with 32M RAM with Win95. Which version driver did/do you have? Do you have any pics of the card you have/had? In 10 years of looking, I've never seen another card anywhere before, except for in a magazine.
It was a 133MHz Pentium. Do you by chance still have the driver. I'm guessing you still have it as I know you are heavy into preserving M2 history. Surely a version would show up in device manager? Surely the markings/stickers could be obfuscated sufficiently with a photo editor to allow for the posting of some pics of the board? Would be awesome to see another one.
