LGR - Tech Tales - 3Dfx, Glide, & Voodoo

Thanks, awesome, I remember 3Dfx being this big huge thing in the 90s and then next thing I know that had disappeared. Never did know the story.

Kevin Furr

I really enjoy these tech tales videos.

Daniel Nelms

My first graphics card was the Voodoo 3 2000 PCI! A friend bought it for me as thanks for giving him my old PC. Got many years of 3D gaming out of it (mostly Quakeworld and TeamFortress) before upgrading to a new PC + nVidia. As for Tech Tales suggestions, I already mentioned "Wang Computers" on Facebook but that story is more obscure and will surely require a lot of research so I'm not expecting it any time soon.

Zabe

I like these Tech Tales videos. It's a good supplement to your current content. I like to learn! Fun fact: I got my first 3Dfx card for Deer Hunter 2 in 1998... (should I be ashamed to say that?)

Randall Strye

Awesome video as usual, very professionally done. I used to have a Canopus Pure3D and played Hexen 2 and Forsaken on it with a Cyrix 6x86 150Mhz cpu. Without 3dfx, those games would barely work. For the next video, I already suggested Commodore, but another one that would be cool is Ion Storm.

I like these tales, and I have a list of suggestions right here. They might or might not be interesting, but here's what I got: 1.Will Wright (mainly regarding Spore as his last project) 2.Origin Systems (rise and fall) 3.Bullfrog Entertainment And...that's it for now lol. Keep being awesome LGR.

Pow3rh0use

Fantastic episode. One of my favorite Tech Tales yet! Thanks!

This makes me want to rip out the Geforce 3 card in my Pentium III rig and slap my 16meg Voodoo 3 2k in there.

I grew up on 3DFX. It's what always kept PC a few steps above consoles back in those days. Games like Tomb Raider, MDK, Quake, Need For Speed etc. always got that little extra from the 3DFX Glide cards... I mean Quake and Tomb Raider were borderline unplayable without 3DFX to be honest...

Alyxx the Rat

With nGlide, OpenGlide, dgVoodoo, GliDOS and other wrappers, 3DFX will never die ! (also there's a DOSBox build with 3DFX emulation built-in here : <a href="http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&amp;t=41853" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&amp;t=41853</a> with this and the fact that DOSBox-X seems more Win9X friendly, maybe emulating a Pentium with 3DFX Win98 PC will be possible in the future ?) Thanks a lot for this Tech Tales, I learned a lot about 3DFX, and gave my 3DFX Voodoo 2 a kiss on the chip. ;-) Also my vote is for Cyrix too for the next episode. Back in the day, it was cheaper than a Pentium and allowed me and my brothers to play Interstate '76. Any machine that let's you play this awesome game is doing something right.

Maximilien Noal

Been loving these Tech Tales videos! Now I have a sudden urge to buy some Voodoo gold. I'd suggest doing an episode about Media Vision!

Sutekh94

I second those. I used to have a Cyrix cpu in my second major PC and I've always wondered about the history

Sterling Treadwell

awsome video :D

StigDesign1

Another great instalment. It took me a long time to get a 3DFX based board (even then it was a second hand acquisition from a mate upgrading his own rig), but boy was it worth it. Played a lot of good games on my machine with that Voodoo 2. Certainly another example of less standardisation making titles more unique ;)

Rob Caporetto

These "Tech Tales" videos are pretty sweet. If you want some ideas for future episodes, I would suggest the tale of Id Software, the tale of Emulation, or the tale of Cyrix. :B

Kris Asick

Great episode!

Chad Keck

found it! voodoo 2 card that did both 2 and 3rd! wow, seeing the box brings back memories of me and my Dad <a href="http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/boxes/box_ban_blast.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/boxes/box_ban_blast.jpg</a>

Gregory Brech

This might even be more fun than watching old episodes of Computer Chronicles! Keep it up!

_nderscore

new patreon here and i want to say thanks man! i feel like i joined the cool club ;) i remember my first card was a 3dfx voodoo banshee PCI. Mannn what an upgrade from integrated graphics at the time.

Gregory Brech

Great show! I heard of voodoo but did not know the history. A company who became too big for their britches.

Loving Tech Tales!

Leigh Beattie

Great job with these videos. I hope they get picked up by a computing museum some day. Wish all computing history was covered like this.

Great Tech Tale, as always!

Cory M

Another brilliant Tech Tales! You probably already checked it out, but for my fellow Patrons that might want to know more, there are some interesting tidbits WRT 3Dfx/Sega in a thread on ASSEMbler: <a href="http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?90-The-3DFX-SEGA-quot-Black-Belt-quot-dreamcast-thread" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?90-The-3DFX-SEGA-quot-Black-Belt-quot-dreamcast-thread</a>

RetroSwim

Out first video card we got was in 1997 and was from Sierra On-line. I was made by Rendition and it worked well. Shadows of the Empire, Jedi Knight, etc. worked well with it. I do remember seeing the Voodoo cards everywhere for awhile and then they were gone... I don't know if we had any 3dfx cards, I only remember using ATI and Nvidia cards. I like these tech tales. It would be cool if you do some videos about defunct game companies, but that will be hard to do with all the research...

Douglas Holmes

This is pretty awesome. I really enjoyed it! Makes me want to find more 3DFX cards for my systems. Hehehe

ReeseRiverson