Californian graphics accelerator board company Canopus Corp has released a new product which it claims ramps up the performance of Voodoo2 based graphics boards. The T3D128DX ‘WitchDoctor’ is a 4MB VGA 2D/3D board based on Nvida Corp’s RIVA 128 graphics board. It acts as a VGA card for Windows applications but when used with a Voodoo2-based game grabs a direct signal from the Voodoo2-based board which is pumped by the WitchDoctor to the monitor – cutting the amount of extraneous cabling that the signal has to pass through, which the company claims improves the visual quality of 3D graphics. The board also has features such as TV-out inherited from earlier Canopus cards such as the Pure 3D II (CI No 3,390). The Witchdoctor requires a Pentium (90Mhz or more) CPU, an AGP slot, 16MB of memory and a Windows 95/NT 4.0 OS. It is shipping now at a cost of $139.95.
