Wow Riva, that brand name brings back memories. Almost as magical as 3dfx and Voodoo. (which NVIDIA ultimately acquired). Truly game changing hardware.

Thanks Scott, Gary and Ross (founders of 3Dfx) you cards gave me and my friends thousands of hours of enjoyment.

I bought a Voodoo as my first 3D card and was so disappointed that it did not support my motherboard (PCI 2.1, I had PCI 2.0), so I had to return to the shop and exchanged it for a TNT. :(

Wow, I didn't know that. Wasn't it done in contest by Gamers?

So what does "Radeon" mean?

Edit: Yes according to Wiki. So we may never know whether Before was actually dedicated to the person. I remember vaguely reading PC Gamer at the time that was not the case at all.

Radeon comes from ATI (later acquired by AMD) so probably doesn't follow the same naming scheme as Nvidia does.

Who is Andrea Geforce? I can't find any information about him/her.

Wikipedia tells the following about the Geforce name:

> The "GeForce" name originated from a contest held by Nvidia in early 1999 called "Name That Chip". The company called out to the public to name the successor to the RIVA TNT2 line of graphics boards. There were over 12,000 entries received and 7 winners received a RIVA TNT2 Ultra graphics card as a reward.[2][3]

- https://web.archive.org/web/20000608011648/http://www.nvidia...

- https://tweakers.net/nieuws/1967/nVidia-Name-that-chip-conte...

So not sure the origin is actually from Andrea Geforce, I can certainly not find any sources that confirm that.

Because he was not a famous scientist, like Alexander Ball, inventor of round inflatable objects.

you just need to create its wikipedia entry and it will exist soon.

well done