RealMagic
RealMagic, from Sigma Designs, was one of the first fully compliant MPEG playback boards on the market in the mid-1990s.
RealMagic is a hardware-accelerated MPEG decoder that mixes its video stream into a computer video card's output through the video card's feature connector. It is also a SoundBlaster-compatible sound card.
Sigma Design's Realmagic superseded by
Several software companies in 1993 promised to support the card, including Access, Interplay, and Sierra. Software written for RealMagic includes:
- Under a Killing Moon
- Gabriel Knight
- Escape from Cybercity
- King's Quest VI
- Dragon's Lair
- Police Quest IV
- Return to Zork
- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I