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LGR - Tech Tales - What Happened to 3Dfx & Voodoo

Geoman
From Munich, Germany
Who joined May 26, 2005, 3:37 a.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 5:54 a.m...


This episode covers the founding, voodoo-powered rise, and ridiculously powerful fall of 3Dfx Interactive. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!


With some SGI-reference.
:Octane2: 2xR12000 400MHz, 4GB RAM, V12
SGI - the legend will never die!!
Adrenaline
From Laurel, MD USA
Who joined Feb. 10, 2005, 12:37 p.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 6:59 a.m...
Those were the days, I remember my 12 year old self immediately after putting a Voodoo 1 (Diamond Monster 3D) into my Pentium and booting Quake II, I just sat in that opening corridor with the pistol watching the light from the blast go from the barrel down the hall and into the wall at the end, lighting up the room as it went. I'm sure others have similar recollections of the first time they launched a game with their newly acquired 3Dfx card.
:Indigo: 33mhz R3k/48mb/XS24 :Indy: 150mhz R4400/256mb/XL24 :Fuel: 600mhz R14kA/2gb/V10 Image 8x1.4ghz Itanium 2/8GB :O3x08R: 32x600mhz R14kA/24GB :Tezro: 4x700mhz R16k/8GB/V12/DCD/SAS/FC/DM5 (2x) :O3x0: 4x700mhz R16k/4GB :PrismDT: 2x1.6ghz 8mb/12gb/SAS/2xFGL
sgifanatic
From Texas
Who joined July 25, 2010, 2:47 p.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 7:15 a.m...
I saw that too :-) LGR is fun, particularly tech tales and the thrifting episodes.
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TeamBlackFox
From Richmond, Virginia
Who joined Jan. 30, 2014, 5:01 p.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 18, 2015, 9:29 p.m...
Voodoo 2 SLi are still pretty nice for classic gaming, they do really well for their age. Not that I'd play Doom 3 or anything on them!
SGI:
:A3502L: Dual Itanium 2@1.5GHz 4GB Marisa
:Octane2: Dual R14000A@600MHz 2GB V12 Sakuya
Non-SGI:
HP C8000
HP EliteBook 8560p i5-2520M@2.5GHz 16GB Youmu FreeBSD 10.1/Windows 8.1
IBM IntelliStation 265 Dual POWER3-II@450MHz Jigoku-Karasu ( Hell Raven )

Incoming/On bench for repair/not in service:
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For Sale: O2 DIMMS, Octane and O2 caddies.
chicaneuk
Who joined July 10, 2012, 3:48 a.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 19, 2015, 1:34 a.m...
Adrenaline wrote: Those were the days, I remember my 12 year old self immediately after putting a Voodoo 1 (Diamond Monster 3D) into my Pentium and booting Quake II, I just sat in that opening corridor with the pistol watching the light from the blast go from the barrel down the hall and into the wall at the end, lighting up the room as it went. I'm sure others have similar recollections of the first time they launched a game with their newly acquired 3Dfx card.


Very similar memories. Couldn't believe how good it looked.

Used to love seeing that little 3Dfx logo spin up when a game started.
:Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane2: :O200:
theinonen
From Finland
Who joined Feb. 21, 2007, 11:32 a.m.
Wrote the following at Jan. 20, 2015, 12:26 a.m...
My first Voodoo card was Hercules Stingray 128/3D but sadly had to revert my overclocked AMD 5x86 (486) system back to 133 MHz from the 160 MHz it was running, or otherwise the 3D acceleration would not work. It was pretty nice system still and certainly could hold its own vs early Pentium systems.

After that I got Voodoo 3 3500/TV to watch television in my student flat after television broke down and still have Voodoo 5 5500 card tucked in closet that was latest and greatest 3DFX card I ever had.