The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA

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• leave_it_blank@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My first game I played with the Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo 1 4 MB) was Tomb Raider 1. I could not believe what was happening. It looked soooo much better, and the frame rates were so fucking high! That really was voodoo magic. I can’t remember something other that magical in all my gaming history.

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same. Another similar breakthrough memory I had was the Gravis Ultrasound and hearing actual sampled instruments in the Ultima music. Before that game music was much more bleeps and bloops.

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  • keimevo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had the same feeling, but with a TNT2 card. I first played Half-Life with software rendering, 320x240 in my fishbowl 14" monitor. Then a few months later I bought the TNT2 (M64, the cheap version), and began my 2nd playthrough at a glorious 640x480 with much better FPS. It was awesome.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Same.

    Next I upgraded to 2×12MB Voodoo 2 (SLI with an IDE cable).

    Best of times.

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• HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I miss my Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card.

  Some games ran worse when I finally replaced it with a GeForce 2 MX400.

  I noticed a large FPS drop in Diablo 2.

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  • Antrotroll@livellosegreto.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @HornedMeatBeast @AngelikaMerkel
    Geforce 2 MX?!

    Attachment: cdn.masto.host ↗

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    • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The website is a bit busted for me, but I believe it was this one.

      https://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/pt_main_back.jsp?pPRODUCT_TYPE=Video+Card&pMODEL_NAME=Siluro+MX400

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had a Voodoo 2. I was salty at my parents that they got the 8 MB version instead of 12 MB. But I couldn’t formulate my frustration because I didn’t quite get the difference between system and graphics memory yet.

  Still it was amazing how fast everything was. I spent hours just switching weapons in Jedi Knight. And Unreal was just drop dead gorgeous in Glide. No comparison to Direct3D or OpenGL.

  And it included a demo of a rotating donut with bump mapping which would be toutet as this amazing new graphics feature decades later.

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• digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depending on whether you had a 3dfx or GeForce made playing Planetside a bit of a cheat. You could spot the cloaked infiltrators from anywhere as they would shimmer a nice ghostly white. Great times 😏

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• bonenode@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This was my first 3D graphics card. Could finally play Quake 3 Arena smoothly. Or was it Quake 2 already? Good times.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Probably quake 2. Quake 3 likely wouldn’t have run the best on a 3dfx card but I think it would have run.

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    • yora@mastodon.gamedev.place ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @TrickDacy @bonenode Could Quake 3 even run without a graphics card? It came out in late 1999 and was the best looking game at the time by far.

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• Quicky@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had a Voodoo 5, which I bought about a month before 3dfx went tits up. Impeccable timing.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    … today it’s worth 128GB of DDR5 …

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    • Quicky@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Holy shit I thought you were joking.

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• aburrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had no idea you could emulate old hardware like this on an FPGA, that’s so cool

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