It wasn’t a Rage it was a Radeon :) not even a 3D accelerator :) this was the first generation of graphics cards that had hardware acceleration for 2D

Was just about time for MDK, Quake, Tomb Raider etc even though it was way outside the official specs for these.

I'm 100% certain your memory is incorrect. Radeon came after Rage in 2000 and was the first Ati 3D accelerator with hardware T&L. Your 1MB 2D only Ati card was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.

I went and looked it up and you are right. Memory failing me. I got a card in 2004 that was a Radeon which must be the mixup …

EDIT thanks for the push. I’m nearly certain it was an S3 Trio based card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio

Oh wow, I stand corrected. Didn't know they brought back the moniker.

No you were originally correct. The Ati card mentioned was most likely a Mach64 or original Rage 3d.