Thanks to [H]ardOCP members who visted 3Dfx collection

The discussion of the Rampage development was interesting. Quite a glimpse at what 3DFx might have been able to pull off had they pushed a little harder. Then again, in 2000 it was all about aggressive companies, and 3DFx just ran out of breath.

A death stroke to one of the finest companies ever to grace their way inside my case

Oh...I had one of the V3 3k retail PCIs, based at 183. I managed to get that sucker stable at 225

Just one question:

I really enjoy some older games like Tomb Raider, Quake, and other Glide-based games. Would it be worthwhile to hunt down an old V5500-PCI or something like that? Is it better than using a Glide wrapper?

Originally Posted by lithium726

wow, you have a rampage...

excuse my french, but that is fuckin' awesome! does it work correctly? benchmarks!!

Heh, I'm waiting for the dongle to flip the DAC output but work it does.

I'm not expecting anything earthshaking, the drivers are not that mature eh?

Originally Posted by pr0nasaurus rex

Just one question:

I really enjoy some older games like Tomb Raider, Quake, and other Glide-based games. Would it be worthwhile to hunt down an old V5500-PCI or something like that? Is it better than using a Glide wrapper?

I think so, but then again have never tried a wrapper. The 5500 PCI are going pretty cheap, and for the old games a 4500 PCI would do just fine too.

You can pickup a 4500 for $10-$15 bucks and it will do 2 tap AA.

See: http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/bench.htm

Will give you an idea what a 4500/5500 will do on some older titles.

Originally Posted by gdonovan

I'm not expecting anything earthshaking, the drivers are not that mature eh?

yeah, but dont you have friends that can whip some up? they did that custom GL driver i thought

Originally Posted by lithium726

yeah, but dont you have friends that can whip some up? they did that custom GL driver i thought

Rampage is based on nothing done before at 3dfx, it doesn't even have glide support. It was going to have native OpenGL and Directx support with glide through a wrapper.

I do have friends looking into an updated OpenGL driver.

Originally Posted by gdonovan

New Page- http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/trivia.htm

Ah crap, I passed the first one on the page up about a week ago for $1 at the local microseconds. Didn't think a thing about it.

Originally Posted by qb4ever

Ah crap, I passed the first one on the page up about a week ago for $1 at the local microseconds. Didn't think a thing about it.

The Orchid Voodoo Graphics boards are pretty easy to find on Ebay for a buck or two if you were looking for one.

You talk about ram being expensive... I remember when ram was $100 PER MEG..... I bought 2 USED sticks of 1MB, for $110.... the guy had bought it 6 months before for $200.

QJ

THought I'd poke my head in and post some new pics since the tread hasn't been updated since '05



Picked up another functioning Mercury brick off Ebay so now have two Mercury systems!



Primary Image Voodoo Graphics Piranha- The only Voodoo Graphics board made with 3 TMU units.



Quantum3D 3 channel Iron system with 200SBi's



Four 8164 boards (8 VSA-100 chips each) from Ebay, hope to have them tested next week.

Just some random stuff, I'll try to pop in time to time with more new stuff, there is plenty added to the site since this thread was last updated.

Gary

P.S. for some reason the pics are not showing, I'll try to look into that tonight...

Haha, nice!

I still have my Creative Voodoo 2's laying in a box unused. I remember playing Team Fortress Classic back in the day with one. Then I got my 2nd board and the jump from 800x600 to 1024x768 was godly for me in those days.

What a wonderful stroll through memory lane. Back in the day if anyone asked me which 3D card to get I simply said "get a 3dfx board." Too bad Graphzilla put 'em under. Thanks for such an awesome site gdonovan!!

Agreed; nice site. I always hated 3dfx back then because they were expensive and I was an nVidia fanboy (had TNT2 Ultra and GeForce2 MX). It was a little sad to see its decline after the turn of the century, though, especially when the Voodoo 5 came out...

And who knew ATI would turn out the way it did?

I had a , NO.# 9 card and a 3dfx Voodoo2 for my graphics experience !!.

My Creative 12mb Voodoo2 SLI is still alive and well. A few months ago I put together a vintage PC out of spare part salvaged off the scrap heap for an "old school" gaming box. For nostagic reasons, I just couldn't just let these two cards collect dust in the closet.

Box #10
Windows 98se
Crappy ATX
Austin 300w PSU
DFI CB60-v3 vIA motherboard
Celeron 466a (retail HSF)
768mb generic PC133
Visiontek GeForce2 MX200
Creative 12mb Voodoo2 SLI
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Seagate U10 Model ST310212A 10.2GB
Lite-On LTC-4816H DVD/CDRW
NEC 17" CRT
MS IntelliMouse

SLI detected just fine on the first try.

Dude you keep that running ,thats cool !

I'm even using the original wallpaper that came with the it. That classic box image:

FYI. I forgot to mention, I originally bought my V2s in February of 1998. That's right. I was the first kid on the block with 'em and it's been running ever since. Man, was I ever proud.

It still boggles my mind that we lost 3DFX. They were the best cards at the time.
I was always using an S3 Savage Pro, but then moved to the voodoo2 and I will always miss it.

There needs to be a sub forum here on [H]ard in the video card section called "3dfx Flavor" and inside there's simply just a stickied thread linking to this guy's site. Total legend.