I have a box of 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in storage. No SLI cables but you can make them out of floppy ribbon cables.
What should I do with them?
The 3dfx Voodoo1
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#12Computer history museum 3dfx Oral History Panel is fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
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#13I have a box of 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in storage. No SLI cables but you can make them out of floppy ribbon cables. What should I do with them?
There is a niche market for vintage gaming machines, I wouldn't be surprised if you could sell them for a few hundred each.
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#14Fabien can you tell me how your website is generated? It’s very readable.
... generated? It's just HTML.
Doesn't mean they literally hand-code every HTML file on the site. That would be highly unlikely since you'd have to change every file any time you update, say, the navbar.
For example, google "static site generator".
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#15Fabien can you tell me how your website is generated? It’s very readable.
... generated? It's just HTML.
I would be quite surprised if Fabien's website HTML was completely hand-written.
The site does seem to run some PHP scripts. http://fabiensanglard.net/appleTechTalk2009/index.php
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#16It’s crazy how fast stuff moved back then. Voodoo 1, to Voodoo 2 (both hits) to Voodoo 3 (meh), to Voodoo 4/5 (debacle), to bankruptcy was less than 4 years. In the same timeframe, we went from a 200 MHz Pentium MMX to a 1 GHz Pentium 3.
What’s happened since 2015, by contrast? Many people still swear by their 2015 MBPs, the last model before the touchbar debacle. That Haswell based machine was getting long in the tooth even back then.
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#17Wow, the lack of gamma correction in the Voodoo1 screenshot completely ruins the mood of the game.
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#18My claim to fame is that the only Voodoo card I've ever owned was a Voodoo 5 6000.
I picked it up in the early 2000s during a pre-closure clearout at my then-employer, a UK video games developer. The sheer size of the thing made me LOL, that and the number of fans and the additional power connector. Then I noticed it was a 3dfx - oh, hey! I could play that Glide-based motorbike game, that I remembered enjoying at a friend's house a few years previously.
The game wasn't as good as I remembered. I threw the card away.
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#19Blast from the past. I have extremely fond memories of moving into my first apartment in 1999 and having friends come over to play Quake on the “voodoo box”. I had three PCs, a 10BASE-T LAN, and one machine that had been upgraded to a 3dfx card. We would play rock, paper, scissors to determine who got to play on the 3dfx box and spend many an all nighter playing till the sun came up. Those were the days...
I’m pretty sure 1999 summer I spent playing Quake III Arena all day every day (the full game or demo) on my @Home broadband connection.
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#20Fabien can you tell me how your website is generated? It’s very readable.
The site used to run on PHP but now it is generated static HTML. I wrote my mini framework because I did not know of any site generator. I learned a lot but overall that was time I could have invested better.
The readability part is just the css based on monospace ans justified paragraphs.