Typhoon Multimedia
Anubis International was a worlwide distribution company that began trading in 1994. Based in Germany, supplying Office accessories, PC and Multimedia peripherals, it quickly grew to a worldwide organization with offices in Germany, India, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Their main Anubis brand sold office products including cables, adapters, CD-ROM and disk boxes, ink refills, and more. Their Multimedia Entertainment product range was marketed under the trade mark of TYPHOON. Among other things, they produced sound cards and graphics cards during the late 1990s.
Typhoon's budget range were called 'EasyLite'. Their premium range was called 'Silver Crest'.
Here is a list of their expansion cards in chronological order by bus type:
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| UltraLite (1998) Acoustic 4 (1998) 3D Acoustic Five (1999) Acoustic 6 (2000) |
Matrix 256 Pro (1999) |
Ultra 3D Maxima TNT2 (1999) Matrix II MX (2000) Matrix II MX-200 (2001) Matrix II GTS / Pro (2001) |
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3D Acoustic Five 
Introduced: August 1999
Bus: PCI
FM Synthesizer: ESS Canyon 3D, Yamaha YMF744
CD-ROM Interfaces: None
Jacks: Line In, Mic In, Line Out, Speaker Out, [Daughterboard adds: Spkr LF/RF/LR/RR/Sub, S/PDIF]
Wavetable Header: None
Plug & Play: Yes
Part #: 50987
FCC ID:
The Typhoon 3D Acoustic Five features state of the Art Sound chip that produces incredible audio production and amazing 3D positioning effects. It also comes with the latest Digital input and output connections via S/PDIFs.
The 3D Acoustic Five uses the latest 3D Surround Sound technology from the Yamaha 744 chipset. It utilizes Sensaura™ Positional 3D technologies. Fantastic clear instrument production from 64 voice XG Capital Wavetable synthesizer. These coupled with Speakers from the Typhoon range and support 5.1 channel will create the ultimate audio surround environment. 5.1 Channel output enable the PC to be hookup to 5 speakers including subwoofers. The card comes with a 64 voice wavetable synthesis and is compatible to Aureal 3D version1.0 and EAX standard. For high-end use, the AcousticFive comes with S/PDIF In and Out connectors for digital functions. It also comes with 2 MIDI In and Out connections for supporting MIDI instruments.
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The Typhoon Silver Crest 3D Acoustic Five Sound Card provide high quality 3D effects and audio production through its variant of ESS Canyon 3D chipset. This Sound card uses superior 3D enhanced technology of CRL’s HRTF “Sensaura MultiDrive™” and hardware Direct3D™ acceleration.
This technology produce true Surround Sound that accurately position sound source, thus creating the idea 3D space. It also emulates the well known A3D 1.0, which produces 3D surround effects on just a pair of speakers. “Powerfully packed with capabilities, this is one 3D Sound Card that can meet the high standards that everyone expect. A sound card built for Home-Theater, 3D games, and multi-speakers environment. The Acoustic Five support 4.1 channel, and A3D producing total 3D realism in a room. ” – Kenneth Low, Product Marketing Manager.
The feature packed Acoustic Five Sound card comes with Hardware Accelerated DirectSound 3D, 64 Voice MIDI Synthesizer, 2/4/4.1 speaker output, Accelerated Joystick Port, SoundBlaster Pro Hardware Emulation. It supports Aureal A3D 1.0 (Emulation), Microsoft DirectSound 3D, and EAX. The Sound card is designed to support the latest design in Speakers for 4.1 channel output. The sound card allows user to connect front speakers, rear speakers and a Subwoofer, which will create the ambience for a truly 3D surround sound. It comes with special DVD software that supports 4.1 channels high quality production, which normally only supports 2 channels.
Together with the Acoustic Five, you will get true surround Home-Theater effects without expensive AC-3 decoders. The Silver Crest range is Typhoon’s high end product range, which are based on good performance, and high quality. These products are carefully selected for being at the top of their class and category."
Typhoon Press Release, 5th August 1999
Typhoon releases new Typhoon 3D Acoustic Five Sound Card that turns your PC into a DVD Home-Theater environment. Reference: #50987
The Typhoon Silver Crest 3D Acoustic Five Sound Card features world advanced 3D sound positional engine, the Sensaura™ Positional 3D. Clear sound production from its 64 voice XG Capital Wavetable synthesizer.
Supporting both Direct Music and Sound Hardware Acceleration. It also emulates the wellknown A3D 1.0, which produces 3D surround effects on just a pair of speakers. “Powerfully packed with capabilities, this is one 3D Sound Card that can meet the high standards that everyone expect. A sound card built for Home-Theater, 3D games, and multi-speakers environment. The Acoustic Five support 5.1 channel, EAX, and A3D producing total 3D realism in a room. ” – Kenneth Low, Product Marketing Manager.
The Acoustic Five comes with a daughterboard to support 5.1 channels which connects to your Subwoofer, Front and Rear speakers. To support Dolby Stereo Sound processor, the daughterboard include S/PDIF out connector and S/PDIF internal connectors on the main board. This feature also supports Digital output to Sony MiniDisc, DVD players, etc. Fully compatible with SoundBlaster and SoundBlaster Pro for games support.
The Silver Crest range is Typhoon’s high end product range, which are based on good performance, and high quality. These products are carefully selected for being at the top of their class and category."
Typhoon Press Release, 19th October 1999
DOS driver v1.00 (21 May 1999)
DOS driver v4.06 (7 March 2000)
Windows 98 driver v4.06 (7 March 2000)
Windows 98 driver v4.10 (7 March 2000)
Windows NT 4.0 driver v4.00 (7 March 2000)
Windows 2000 driver v4.10 (6 August 1999)
Windows 2000 driver v5.12 (3 October 2000)
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Acoustic Six
Introduced: 1999?
Bus: PCI
FM Synthesizer: C-Media CMI8738-6CH
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Part #: 51005
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Whether you have 2, 4, or even 6 speakers systems, the Typhoon Acoustic Six 5+1 sound card provides the ability and enhancement to connect to these speakers to your computer. Built with the advanced HRTF-based 3D positional audio chipset, it supports 4 and 6 channel output and with the software DVD player, it will produce Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio effects. If you have the Digital decoder (AC-3), you can use the optical digital output to direct the 6 channel audio from the sound card and then to the 6 channel speakers.
The Acoustic Six has a professional digital interface that supports 24-bit SPDIF IN/OUT (44.1K and 48K). These outputs come with 2 basic sets, the Coaxial and the Optical, enabling you to connect to DAT recorders, Minidisks and other digital equipments. It has a FM emulator/DLS-based Wavetable music synthesizer and with the Yamaha SG-50, it provides 64 voices and 128 music instruments. Hardware acceleration that supports Direct Music and Direct Sound. Compatible with SoundBlaster™, SoundBlaster Pro™, EAX™, DirectSound™3D, A3D™ 1.0, Virtual Ear, and Karaoke key. Can be installed in wide range of platforms supporting Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/Linux and DOS.
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Matrix 256 Pro
Introduced: October 1999
Bus: PCI
Chipset: nVidia GeForce256
Memory: 32 MB DDR
RAMDAC: 700 MHz
Price:
Part #: 50980
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Part of their Silver Crest line of premium products, the Matrix256 Pro was based on the nVidia GeForce 256.
The Matrix 256 PRO integrates transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping and rendering engines that is capable of producing a minimum of 10 millions polygons per second. All current games and applications will benefit from the Matrix 256 PRO high fill rate and especially in resolutions at 1024 x 768 and higher. And now with DDRAM, the Matrix 256 PRO is even faster than the Matrix 256 with more memory and speed to perform.
The Silver Crest Matrix256 features state of the art 3D rendering and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The card takes the entire graphics and 3D rendering job away from the system CPU, unloading precious resources to the system. With this feature, the CPU is now able to handle the applications better and faster, leaving the graphics tasks to the Matrix256.
“Finally a graphics card does what it suppose to do and everything is now set to write programs that the CPU is good at. This solution puts everything in perfect perspective, CPU concentrates on the logic and the graphics handle by the entire Matrix256. Now, the world can expect powerful applications with fantastic speed and colors. No more penalty on the CPU.” – Kenneth Low, Product Marketing Manager.
The Matrix256 is an unparallel 256 bit Graphics Processor unit with Nvidia’s QuadEngine™ Technology. The card supports AGP 1x/2x/4x with Fast Writes. 350MHz Ramdac with resolution up to 2048x1536, True Color. Full acceleration for Microsoft DirectX 7 and OpenGL 1.2 ICD. 15M Polygons/sec & 480M Pixels/sec. Transform Engine, Lighting Engine, Setup Enginem and Rendering Engine. 32-bit Z-buffer/stencil.
Complete optimization for Direct3D."
Typhoon Press Release, 19th October 1999
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GeForce driver for Windows NT 4.0 v3.75 (Jan 21, 2000)
Matrix II MX
Introduced: 2000(?)
Bus: AGP 2x / 4x
Chipset: nVidia GeForce2 MX
Memory: 32 MB SDRAM
RAMDAC: 350 MHz
Price:
Part #: 50982
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Typhoon Matrix II MX is the next generation accelerator succeeding the GeForce2 GTS in breakthrough 3D architecture and high 2D/3D performances at affordable price. Accelerated by nVIDIA GeForce2 MX GPU, the Matrix II MX has full features like transform & lighting, per-pixel shading, advanced video processing and 32MB SDRAM.
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Matrix MX II driver for Windows 95/98 v6.49 (Jan 24, 2001)
Matrix II MX-200
Introduced: 2001(?)
Bus: AGP 2x / 4x
Chipset: nVidia GeForce2 MX-200
Memory: 64 MB SDRAM
RAMDAC: 350 MHz
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Part #: 51002
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Full 3D acceleration at the latest clock speed and generates 32-bit colors.
TwinView
Finally, with NVIDIA's TwinView™ dual-display architecture, multiple displays can be supported on a single GPU. Financial analysts can have a second monitor specifically for tracking each data stream, while graphic artists can use an entire screen for palettes and another for editing.
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Digital Vibrance Control™ is a patent-pending innovation for controlling color separation and intensity. With a simple control panel, you select and control the color settings of your display's entire visual output.
NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
The NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer™ (NSR) combined with the blazing fill rate of an NVIDIA GPU, delivers incomparable resolution and accuracy. Complex scenes are now rich with detail. Features such as per-pixel bump mapping can be utilized to a more dramatic visual effect.
QUALITY
NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture
Industry™s first fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.2 support for all LinuxŽand Windows® operating systems WHQL-certified Windows 2000,WindowsNT®, Windows 3.5 Complete Linux drivers, including full OpenGL
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Matrix MX II driver for Windows 95/98 v6.49 (Jan 24, 2001)
Matrix II GTS / Matrix II Pro
Introduced: 2000/2001
Bus: AGP 4x
Chipset: nVidia GeForce2 GTS
Memory: 32 MB DDR (GTS) or 64 MB DDR (Pro)
RAMDAC: 350 MHz
Price:
Part #: 50983 (GTS), 50984 (Pro)
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Typhoon Matrix II GTS brings powerful innovative performance to your PC system. Meeting all expectances including cutting-edge 3D graphics enhanced performance, 256-bit graphics architecture, AGP 4X with Fast Write supported and high quality HDVP playback solution integrated. Upgrade your PC into a more powerful 3D system by using Typhoon Matrix II GTS.
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