BlitWise Needs Your Help.

[Brian]

Hi there guys! I come to you asking for help. As you all know, we've been testing and working on the upcoming game for some time now, and we've run up against a snag. We're trying to obtain some minimum specifications for the new game, as well as testing it for bugs on various systems. However, we've had some trouble getting our hands on some components for our test computers, particularly video cards.

In particular, we need these cards:

circa 1999
Rage Pro 128 32MB
NVidia Riva TNT 2 32MB

circa 2000
Radeon 7200 (R100 chipset, or the oldest Radeon possible)
GeForce 256 or a GeForce 2


Those are the ones we need most, and most urgently, hopefully by early next week. However, we may also be interested in other cards which support 3D between c. 1998 and c. 2003.

If you have a card that meets those specifications which you may be willing to part with, please email me directly at techsupport@blitwise.com with the subject line "Video Card Request" or something similar. I'll confirm as quickly as I can if it's something we need/can use, and we will gladly pay you for shipping as well as a fair market value for the card that we both agree on.

In addition...if you can help us out quickly and we come to an agreement on one of these cards, you will receive a FREE copy of the upcoming game the very same day we release it! Just to sweeten the pot.

Again, let me know as soon as possible if you think you may be able to help us. This is one of the last things holding us back from the release. We need these specifications and testing.

[biggman15]

This is a dilema for me... Free copy of the new game... Part with my personal video card...

I have a Riva TNT 2 32MB... In my computer right now... but I have nothing to replace it with.... :(

[Brian]

Well, it sounds like Was it Me might have a card of that configuration anyway, so no need to make that ultimate sacrifice. :D

[Zwaken]

Wait...my dad used to build computers and we might have one of those laying around...are they rare?

By the way, this is a curiosity question. What are they gonna be used for? I'm I being to nosey???

[Zwaken]

Wait...do you need both or just one of the 2?

[Brian]

That's not nosey at all. As I said above, we're using them to construct a number of testing computers so we know the parameters for running our new game...minimum requirements, what is necessary to run it on full graphics mode, etc.

As to what we need, we could use at least one of all four ideally. They aren't rare, per se, just old. It's not like we can just walk into Circuit City and get them...we've been scrounging area used computer stores, etc, with little avail.

[Everlast]

Why don't you try E-Bay? Oh ya I know that some games have a "detail" button for "Low Detail", "Medium Detail", and "High Detail".

[Brian]

We've looked on ebay, but we need to have them rather soon, and it can take a while to arrange payment, and we need to insure express delivery, which many people don't want to do.

[Zwaken]

Has this problem been handled?

[Brian]

Temporarily. Mike got a fellow developer to lend us some of the cards we needed to do testing. It's a quick fix, but we'll still be looking for cards to test in the future.