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Out of the Blue

[Apr 07, 2009, 01:27 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Did you have a Voodoo 3 accelerator back in the day? Brace yourself: that day was a decade ago, as it was ten years ago today Voodoo 3's started showing up on store shelves.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Apr 7, 2009, 13:05

Agent.X7

Yeah I had a Voodoo3 2000, kickass card. Glide rocked, as well as OpenGL but unfortunately the card sucked in DirectX, its a shame Microsoft and Nvidia teamed up to destroy the pioneers of graphics acceleration 3dfx.

Hardly. 3DFX drove themselves out of business by requiring developers to code for a 3rd API - GLIDE - when we already had OpenGL and DirectX. People refused to make games for it, and it killed the company. NVidia just bought the rights to the technology and ported it to DirectX.




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