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If you are old enough, odds are you owned a 3Dfx card and played some of these games. Let us take you a trip down memory lane and remember some of the best games ever that used Glide.
Yet 3dfx's work went beyond designing the architecture to creating an API that enables game developers to support the card. At the time, there were no 3D engines that supported 3D hardware and no ...
3Dfx would revisit the 2D / 3D combo card idea with the Voodoo Banshee and even submitted a design for Sega's Dreamcast game console, but was ultimately passed over in favor of a chipset from NEC.
Game Over For 3dfx Dec 18, 2000, 01:33pm EST Jun 06, 2013, 02:30pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. Did you ever play a fast-moving videogame in which you used up all your ...
Previously, you only needed a 1st-gen Pentium CPU to get a 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card working well at 640 x 480 in most games, and officially, the Voodoo 2 had the same requirements. However, SLI ...
The trio of 3dfx founders would surely never have expected their company's fortunes to shine so brightly, yet so short. 3dfx's maiden product, the Voodoo Graphics 3D chip reached manufacturing in ...
When the merger between 3dfx and Gigapixel was announced in a March conference call, 3dfx representatives spoke about new opportunities to be found in providing graphics for portable platforms ...
System3D was based on 3Dfx’s new Obsidian 3D graphics board for coin-op/location-based entertainment (LBE) games. The Obsidian board proved to be good enough to be used as a workstation-class AIB.
3dfx has sent word that its next generation of 3D acceleration add-in cards will launch to retail outlets this week. The dual-processor Voodoo5 5500 will be the first card on the market to feature ...
If you think games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto are “retro,” you’ve probably never heard of 3DFX. It was a scrappy little company that competed with Nvidia in the early days of discrete ...