3dfx

Started by Ryam BaCo, Tue 01/06/2004 21:39:20

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Ryam BaCo

sooooo...here it is the 3dfx-dicussion...does anybody own 3dfx-graphic-cards or has 3dfx-tales he wants to share with us?

here is my 3d(fx)-gamer-story which made me to a truly fan of this awesome company:
i received my first 3d-graphics-card (a voodoo5 5500) in june 2000 (6 months before they got assimilated by evilllllll nvidia) and the very first game i started was ultima 9 where i thought something like "oh! no! my computer crashed! the intro stopped!" till it took me around 30 seconds to realize that this were game graphics. uh...this was quite a shock for me. a positive one. i think that's the usual business when you're used to "monkey island 1" vga-graphics... ;) ultima 9 in glide. and then this 3dfx-logo every time when you start a game in glide. and so it was something like "3dfx? love! love! love!".

and then i discovered all this neat features of my voodoo5. 4xfull-scene-antialising. which lead to an incredbile image quality. and so my affection to 3dfx changed from an one-night-stand to "3dfx? even more love!".

and then i discovered this quake3-demo. running in 640x480 with 4xfsaa. in glide + depth of field. wooooooooohhhhhaaaaaa. sooooo cooolll.

but this company full of creative insane (who else would dare producing monsters like a voodoo5 6000 or voodoo2-sli???) people came down to earth. this nvidia-guys with their clever marketing campaigns bought this small familiar company. oh...well...the world is so unfair.

soooo....who else owns or owned a 3dfx-card? huh?

oh...and...here...is something for you:
an awesome 3dfx-spot: http://www.voodooalert.de/files/movies/violent.mpg (size ~3 mb)
bunch of crap | Michael Jackson - King of Pop, Rock and Soul

stuh505

yeah i dont know...the voodoo was also my first graphics card, i used it for rainbow six...i was pretty unimpressed.  i was a lot happier when i upgraded to the "evil" nvidia geforce4 which transformed the graphics AND made things run faster...talk about a good thing.  but i know nothing about graphics cards...

earlwood

When I got my first 3dfx card, It came with the Carmaggedon: Splash Pack. I played it for about 3 hours, got over the "step above N64" graphics and went back to playing King's Quest 1, Which I finished about 2 years later after finding that giving your precious golden egg to the troll was crutial to the completion of the game.


]Club troll to death with carrot

*I don't understand "Club"*

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