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A look at the legacy of 3dfx and its Voodoo series of video cards. Insight into Oscar Barea’s VoodooX Project. What’s next on Barea’s development list. In the mid-1990s, the PC gaming ...
then get a load of this new custom 3dfx Voodoo card. The new VoodooX 4900 is based on the VSA-100 (codenamed Napalm) chip that fueled the last generation of 3dfx cards at the turn of the ...
At one point in history, a 3dfx-powered graphics card was nearly synonymous with consumer-accessible 3D acceleration thanks to tons of old Voodoo cards back in the 90s outfitted with 3dfx hardware.
Just how do you follow up a graphics card as beloved, ground-breaking, and just plain damn awesome as the original 3dfx Voodoo Graphics? There was, after all, no way to repeat that gargantuan leap ...
If you owned a PC in the mid to late 90s, you will undoubtedly have been familiar with the 3Dfx Voodoo graphics card. Being one of the few dedicated ‘3D accelerators’ (as they were known back ...
The 3dfx Voodoo marks the dawn of consumer 3D graphics acceleration. This graphics accelerator, equipped with a modest 50MHz clock speed and 4/6MB of memory, not to mention a 500nm process node ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Starfield officially released on Xbox Series X/S and PC September 6, introducing players to developer Bethesda’s first new universe in 25 years ...
Trying the 3dfx version of the game in 86Box I noticed that the shadow in the top left corner, the text boxes, the radar and the explosions have the transparency ...
The Voodoo 5 6000 was 3DFX’s final GPU design before the company was sold to Nvidia. According to Wikipedia, there were a little over 100 of the experimental graphics cards created in 2000.
Nvidia bought 3dfx in late 2000, before the Voodoo 5 6000 or anything like it could come to market. Nvidia and ATI (and then, AMD, after AMD bought ATI) were the only major players in the ...
The rise was swift and brief. The first 3Dfx Voodoo cards arrived in late 1996 and just five years later, Nvidia scooped up most of the firm's assets. As a result, several of 3Dfx's late-stage ...
For those of you with good memories, you may recall that the last time something regarding 3DFX came up in the news was when someone managed to hijack their official Twitter account and then went ...