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LGR Tech Tales - 3Dfx & Voodoo's Self-Destruction

submitted by ant

7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

"This episode covers the founding, voodoo-powered rise, and ridiculously powerful fall of 3Dfx Interactive. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between! ..."

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I owned 3 total 3dfx cards, including the last one, the 5500. They were great and glide was better than direct 3d for a long time. I was sad to see them go.

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ant

Diamond Monster 3D (1) and Creative Blaster (2) for me.

I owned 3 total 3dfx cards, including the last one, the 5500. They were great and glide was better than direct 3d for a long time. I was sad to see them go.

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Same here. I also had a 4mb Diamond Monster 3D card. To this day I still say it's the best upgrade to my computer that I ever made. I don't think that "wow" feeling after running Quake2 on it for the first time will ever happen again.

ant

Diamond Monster 3D (1) and Creative Blaster (2) for me.

ant

Yep. I remember it was crashing my PC because it got hot! http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html for my history.

Same here. I also had a 4mb Diamond Monster 3D card. To this day I still say it's the best upgrade to my computer that I ever made. I don't think that "wow" feeling after running Quake2 on it for the first time will ever happen again.

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