Remember 3Dfx?

jackthomas · Post by **jackthomas** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:46 am

I was browsing some old gaming titles at a local Half Price Books store, and came across a couple of old...no...ancient gaming titles I missed back when they were in their prime. Considering the el-cheapo prices, I thought it would be cool to finally experience them...until I happened to check out the system requirements.

Suffice to say that it's been a LONG time since I or anyone else that I know has had a Voodoo-compatible video card in ANY of its generation iterations. Ignoring (for now) the faster CPUs we have these days, does anyone know if there any driver hacks that might allow these old 3Dfx games to run with a current-day vid card?

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:54 am

best bet probably voodoo wrappers

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:14 am

Very very few games REQUIRED a Voodoo. It was almost always optional.

Post by **Agozer** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:37 am

I still have a genuine Voodoo card in my old computer. Neat little beat that one, with a whopping 4MB of RAM and all. As far as the wrappers go, I don't think there are very good ones (except Glide64, but that was specifically designed to work with n64 emulators).

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:55 am

I have a Voodoo 2 I scavenged off something that strayed near me.
Never used, or even installed, it. But it's nice to know it's there for a future legacy box.

And a decent Glide->OpenGL wrapper shouldn't be TOO hard, since Glide is a subset of OpenGL anyways.

Squall_Leonhart · Post by **Squall_Leonhart** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:56 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:I have a Voodoo 2 I scavenged off something that strayed near me.
Never used, or even installed, it. But it's nice to know it's there for a future legacy box.

And a decent Glide->OpenGL wrapper shouldn't be TOO hard, since Glide is a subset of OpenGL anyways.

Glide was opengl with a twist. there are several games which accessed certain parts of the hardware directly, and most wrappers don't play nicely with that...

none of the wrappers play the 3DO glide games properly...

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:13 pm

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Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:15 am

well, as long it ask proper question & doesn't do any advertising content, that probably ok.

anyway byuu, iirc, you said glide that already deprecated API and should be dissapears ...

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:42 am

who's developing glide?

oh right, no one.

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