The 3dfx Voodoo1
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The 3dfx Voodoo1
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#2The Voodoo was, very literally, a game-changer. The difference in quality between Quake and GLQuake was astounding.
Just a few seconds of gameplay was enough to get someone to make the purchase.
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#3Fabien can you tell me how your website is generated? It’s very readable.
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#4I remember the first time someone told me about a card that you could put in your computer that would make quake run faster. It sounded so strange and exotic. Then I saw the screen caps with all their anti aliased glory and was devastated that I could never afford it on a movie theater clerk's salary.
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#5Blast 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...
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#6The Voodoo was, very literally, a game-changer. The difference in quality between Quake and GLQuake was astounding. Just a few seconds of gameplay was enough to get someone to make the purchase.
Same with PC speaker vs SoundBlaster.
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#7Fabien can you tell me how your website is generated? It’s very readable.
... generated? It's just HTML.
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#8I recall purchasing two of these in the late 90s for relatively little money. Both cards could work in conjunction and it radically changed how games looked—really amazing how much of a difference it made. I can distinctly recall the difference in crispness, and how disappointing it was that didn’t apply to everything I used or played (3DS Max, CAD, etc).
They were the first thing I ever sold on eBay, sometime around 1999.
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#9They forgot to mention at the end of the article that 3dfx filed for bankruptcy as they literally became "drunk on their success." Everybody started showing up to work intoxicated. Some investors got left out in the cold.