Diamond Fire GL 1000
| Technical details | |
| Name: | Fire GL 1000 |
| Company: | Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. |
| Chipset: | 3DLabs Permedia NT 70 MHz, 3DLabs GLINT Delta at 40 MHz |
| Bus: | PCI |
| RAM: | 4 MB SGRAM 12 ns 64 bit at 60 MHz |
| DAC: | IBM Palette DAC 37RGB526DB22 220 MHz |
| Connectors: | VGA |
| PCI-ID: | VENDOR 3D3D DEVICE 0004 (XGA Adapter) and VENDOR 3D3D DEVICE 0003 (Coprocessor) |
| FCC-ID: | ? |
| Manufactured: | 1996 |
"Pervasive Media" Without running VBETUNE which comes with the driver VESA modes give just snow.
Diamond Driver
Recommended Permedia NT drivers from 3DLabs
Due to the similarity to the Permedia2 chipset the driver package supports both chipsets. The Permedia2 recommended driver version is newer. You may try theses as well. The review at Vintage 3D describes the quirks of both versions. Recommended Permedia2 drivers from 3DLabs
VESA Info - run also VBETUNE before
Review of different Permedias at Vintage 3D (scroll to end)
BIOS message:
The following screenshots were taken from the driver from Diamond. So it is 70 MHz:
No OpenGL, Video could be slow:
Alpha is not working:
Final Reality 1.0 results:
Final Reality 1.0 3D results:
So the GLINT Delta acceleration shows here very well with x10 performance of the ViRGE/VX at small triangles. Fillrate is only faster by a factor of two.
Final Reality 1.0 2D results:
2D speed seems to be good.
Final Reality 1.0 bus test results:
