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TheRapture

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Check out what I found in my closet....my ORIGINAL, bought in 1997, paid $300 for it, Diamond 4mb 3D Voodoo1, with original pass through cable....holy moly....it still works too...I am installing it into an old Dell box I got that has 64mb of ram, a 500mhz Celeron, 20gb hard drive, and Windows 98SE.....gonna load up the old GLQuake and check it out hahah...man I spent MANY hours playing Q1 and TF Classic on a rig similar to this.....you got a "classic" 3d gamer rig? POST SOME PICS.....






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It's a nice card, and I remember the good old days but no offense...
We have quite a few of these threads all ready.
 
illgiveumorality said:
It's a nice card, and I remember the good old days but no offense...
We have quite a few of these threads all ready.
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So we have another then :p I highly recommend that you don't read threads and crap on them if you have nothing useful or decent to say...no offense of course.
 
{NcsO}ReichstaG said:
any benchmark scores :p
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Going to get some....installing a NIC and the card right now......so I can copy over some games and shit....
 
I have one of those in the drawer beside me.

I also have a Voodoo 2 SLi setup.

Both work fine, and I have 3 Pass-Through cables and 4 SLi cables.
 
Borgschulze said:
I have one of those in the drawer beside me.

I also have a Voodoo 2 SLi setup.

Both work fine, and I have 3 Pass-Through cables and 4 SLi cables.
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I wish I had saved my dual V2's....man Q2 on that rig was the cat's meow....two 12mb V2's was the shit wasn't it...
 
TheRapture said:
I wish I had saved my dual V2's....man Q2 on that rig was the cat's meow....two 12mb V2's was the shit wasn't it...
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I was playing Unreal Tournament '99 on them a while ago, pretty fun.

The rest of the system was a K6-2 500mhz with 448mb RAM, and an ATi Rage 128 Pro VIVO for 2D.
 
Had an Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo1, my very first (2nd hand) 3D card. Not bad for it's day.

Kinda unnerving how the typical video card design has changed. Especially the lack of fan, let alone, the heatsink.

It doesn't even *LOOK* like a video card to me anymore :p
 
Sly said:
Had an Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo1, my very first (2nd hand) 3D card. Not bad for it's day.

Kinda unnerving how the typical video card design has changed. Especially the lack of fan, let alone, the heatsink.

It doesn't even *LOOK* like a video card to me anymore :p
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Have you looked at any Matrox cards lately?

Check out this one.
 
Borgschulze said:
The rest of the system was a K6-2 500mhz with 448mb RAM, and an ATi Rage 128 Pro VIVO for 2D.
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Monster rig! At least then it was! Hahaha.....
 
I have an old 3D video card like that from 1995: the Western Digital Paradise Tasmania 3D (Yamaha RPA2 chipset). I think that was the very first dedicated PCI 3D card released. Too bad the Tasmania 3D never supported D3D or OpenGL. :p

I'l post pictures after dinner. Maybe i'll also drag out my old ATI EGA Wonder, which uses a Chips and Technology (later purchased by Intel) graphics core.

edit: stroll down memory lane:

ATI EGA Wonder. The ATI chip interfaces TV out and the feature connector, the CHIPS (C&T) chip is the graphics core. The video in jack just goes to the feature connector, probably for an add-on board. Yes, at one time that was my primary video card and i used TV out. :p


Next is my first 3D card. Sadly this was also a primary card for me at the time and it didn't support DX when DX came out (I upgraded to a Diamond Stealth II S220 for DX/OGL... Rendition V2200 chipset). It supported a few oddball pre-DX APIs (BRender being the most popular of those). Notice the use of a connection between the VGA card and 3D card... one year before Voodoo Graphics did the same thing:



And as a bonus, who would have throught of putting RAM on a sound card?!?!? :p The Gravis Ultrasound was the king of audio a long time ago:


I have other old stuff, but not as interesting.
 
pxc said:
I have an old 3D video card like that from 1995: the Western Digital Paradise Tasmania 3D (Yamaha RPA2 chipset). I think that was the very first dedicated PCI 3D card released. Too bad the Tasmania 3D never supported D3D or OpenGL. :p

I'l post pictures after dinner. Maybe i'll also drag out my old ATI EGA Wonder, which uses a Chips and Technology (later purchased by Intel) graphics core.
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Damn...."EGA". I remember the "3D" Virge card...wow....thought that was the bomb too at that time.....
 
TheRapture said:
man I spent MANY hours playing Q1 and TF Classic on a rig similar to this.....you got a "classic" 3d gamer rig? POST SOME PICS.....
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TFC for teh pwnage! I still play it on my Dell with a 16mb TNT...450mhz XPS monster too...lol

Hopefully you're getting pumped for FF
 
So far, NOTHING has compared to the original TF...man I even went to the somewhat failed "TF Con" way back when in Oklahoma...we still had a ton of fun, and one guy there was so damn good as a sniper....talk about the fun we had on maps like "Cross the Border" .................ahahhahah, we would be crying tears and laughing so hard....
 
Still have my old Voodoo1 as well, in a slightly modded form though:
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Not to throw this further off topic, but with the processors on keychains, did you remove the pins, or are they still in tact? I have an old Athlon 3200+ that's going to get the keychain treatment.
 
No pins, that's just the heat spreader. I actually have two or three covers off of GeForce FX5900/5950 Ultras, although they're too thin and flimsy to work as keychains.
 
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