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3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build

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Post by cyberge99 »

sparrish wrote: post #2

This brings back memories. Wing Commander: Prophecy, Deus Ex Paid way too much for a Voodoo card but got so much enjoyment from it. The "American Megatrends" BIOS screenshot... good times.

I paid $300 bucks or something for that video card.

Fond memories, though.

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Post by pak9rabid »

sparrish wrote: post #2

This brings back memories. Wing Commander: Prophecy, Deus Ex Paid way too much for a Voodoo card but got so much enjoyment from it. The "American Megatrends" BIOS screenshot... good times.

For Quake2, the two single best upgrades were my Voodoo2 and getting Cable Internet access (TimeWarner Roadrunner).

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Post by shog_hn »

sparrish wrote: post #2

This brings back memories. Wing Commander: Prophecy, Deus Ex Paid way too much for a Voodoo card but got so much enjoyment from it. The "American Megatrends" BIOS screenshot... good times.

Hell yeah, I actually won a copy of Wing Commander Prophecy on a local radio station competition. I think it was one of my first 'multi disc cdrom' games.

Quake 2 was one of the first games I loaded up after installing my card. The coloured lighting, smoothed textures and silky smooth framerate were just totally mindblowing for me at the time.

It was all enough to make me forget about the fact that I had a janky heatsink/fan assembly with the PC case lying on its side. I gamed like that for at least a year or so until I could get an upgraded motherboard with AGP slot to support newer cards.

Re: 3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build

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Post by shog_hn »

pak9rabid wrote: post #4

Screw the Samsung SyncMaster, he needs a Sony Trinitron!

You convinced me to pull the trigger on an old one on ebay... My wife is not going to be happy when this arrives.

The SyncMaster will always have a special place in my heart though. Played many old DOS games on that from UFO: enemy unknown, to x-wing, tie fighter, and Ultima VIII. It went through many family PC upgrades and I inherited it. The 17" CRT started to get a bit more affordable in the era of the Pentium II, III and AMD K6-2/3 and I think it'll be a better pairing with the Voodoo 2 enabled system.

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