Bitboys

[Deeko]

Anyone remember these guys?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

who are bitboys? care to explain?

 

[Ryland]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
who are bitboys? care to explain?

Thats kind of the point. I remember them. I don't think they actually ever came out with a "product" though.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
who are bitboys? care to explain?

Ultimate vaporware company. Started talking about how they would crush the 3DFX Voodoo in 1996. They continued with this nonsense for 5+ years talking trash about 3dfx and then Nvidia, always claiming they were preparing to release something that was ###% faster, etc.

Here is an example from 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/200....com/a_pr_glaze3d.html

That is the product they hyped from 1998-2001. Before that it was the Pyramid3D hyped from 1996-1998.

 

[Deeko]

Glaze3D was amaaaazing. XBA4life!

 

[cramerica]

A bit off topic, but this reminds me of Go-L computing...makers of the mighty Mach 4.2 GHz PC, featuring a 4 panel LCD display! Go-L's computer's bar graphs were up to 400% longer than the competition's bar graphs!

Honestly tho, when my roomate and I first saw this it took us a minute to realize it was BS...still funny ...a good poke at Apple.


www.go-l.com

 

[trikster2]

Still alive and well.

Now that 3dFX is crushed they have moved on to the mobile market

Watch out motorola!

http://www.bitboys.com/

 

[cramerica]

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I can't wait to get my hands on one of those photoshopped nVidia themed cell phones

 

[bobsmith1492]

My friend is still telling me he wants to get a laptop from go-I..... I took one look at that site and said NOPE!
He still doesn't believe me though...

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
My friend is still telling me he wants to get a laptop from go-I..... I took one look at that site and said NOPE!
He still doesn't believe me though...

They went out of business several months ago.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I was pretty sure that although Glaze3D was essentially vaporware, Pyramid3D did tape out, but the market had moved on a bit, and they didn't have any OEM customers lined up for the product. AFAIK, some of the guys working there came from a Finnish demogroup, same as the guys that started FutureMark. Not sure, but at least one of them has ex-FC members, if not both. As far as their understanding of the 3D pipeline, they do know their stuff. I think that they were just way ahead of their time, technologically, and at the same time, lacking in the experience of bringing a hardware product to market, including doing the marketing necessary to gain the OEM customers to make your product sustainable. They wanted to do things like programmable shaders, years and years ago. Think SM3.0, five years ahead of its time. Kind of like Babbage that designed his "analytical engine" (mechanical computer), but the mechanical-design technology at the time didn't allow him to actually build one. I wish them luck in the mobile market, since NV has now recently targeted that market too.

 

[BFG10K]

BitBoys did give us EMBM so at least something of theirs made it into reality.