#Voodoo Graphics

[techturd]

[tamara-kama]

Look at what I have leftover from the 90's.. I believe this is my original 3Dfx Voodoo 1 graphics board from Diamond Multimedia!

They called it the Diamond Monster 3D!

Some time I'd like to mount it in a special shadow box with maybe the best ad for it as the background and lighting as a display.

TBH the 4MB of VRAM it has would be considered a miniscule amount these days now that we have GPUs with multiple GBs of VRAM.. haha

[nerdby]

Just got done watching Thunderbolts. At the end of the movie when Valentina announced the "New Avengers" all I could imagine was Sam Wilson sitting at home with a cup of coffee being like, "Ahh, hell nah." Judging by the post credits scene I was right😂😅

This doesn't really upset me too much cause it'll probably end up being like in the comics where there are two teams of Avengers -- East Coast Avengers and West Coast Avengers. Cause there's evil everywhere. Not just in New York. The first two Iron Man movies were set in Malibu, remember?

I do understand why some Sam Wilson fans are upset, though. Right now, though, I'm just imagining what it would be like to have Gambit and the Thieves' Guild in Sam's universe along with Brother Voodoo. And just seeing Sam, Brother Voodoo, and Doctor Strange team up with Gambit to take out the Thieves' Guild in Louisiana. What if they met Rogue when she's a college sophomore, trying to figure out how to manage her powers and being manipulated by Mystique whose trying to reconnect with her after she threw Rogue's ass in foster care?

I've already fancast Mia Goth as Rogue.

[byruit]

I really miss the early 2000s graphic cards box aesthetics because it felt like you were getting an amazing new 3D world every time 🧡

And sometimes, when you couldn’t decide the card to buy, you made the choice based on the box that looked cooler. Been there, done that (and I absolutely don’t regret it!).

[not-radioshack]

Writeup: The 1999(ish) Voodoo Rush Experience

Ooh, spinny!

Now this is something you don't really come across every day. A complete in box 3Dfx Voodoo Rush, complete with all accessories. Driver CD? Check. Pack-in games? Check. All the manuals and pamphlets you can imagine for something like this? For sure.

And of course, let's not forget about the card itself.

The Voodoo Rush is a pretty unique card compared to most other graphics cards even from the era. Unlike the Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2, it's not a purely 3D card incapable of rendering 2D graphics. At the same time, it's also not one of the increasingly-common all-in-one cards capable of both 2D and 3D in a single chip. It'd take the Voodoo Rush's successor, the Voodoo Banshee, for 3Dfx to accomplish that themselves.

Instead, the Voodoo Rush chipset (and I really do mean chipset) is produced by 3Dfx in partnership with Alliance Semiconductor and Macronix, although cards featuring a chip from the former are far more common than the latter. Both Alliance and Macronix's chips feature a special dedicated bus that allows them to sacrifice a chunk of what would otherwise be their memory buses to connect to video memory to communicate with the pair of 3Dfx chips to the right of the card. These two chips together handle the framebuffer and texture mapping, and were essentially a cut-down Voodoo 1 in terms of performance.

The Alliance Semiconductor chip is also a curiosity in itself, and although officially, the Alliance AT25 is distinct from the AT3D, it is believed that the AT25 is in fact just a rebranded AT3D with the 3D features disabled at the driver level. I have yet to test this myself however, but a writeup on the AT3D can be found here.

As far as the pack-in games go, this particular boxed set includes Pandemonium, Formula 1 Racing, and Star Wars Shadow of the Empire: Battle of Hoth. I found the latter two games very fun to play, especially for pack-in games included with what was meant to be a budget graphics card. Pandemonium was a neat 3D side-scrolling platformer, but I didn't feel that it was nearly as enjoyable in comparison. Further thoughts on the pack-in games are included in the linked Youtube video I made alongside this post:

All in all though, for a budget graphics card originally released in 1997 put into a scenario where it's now paired with roughly 1999-ish hardware, the Voodoo Rush turned out to be a far better experience than I'd expected. At least, when only considering the pack-in games. Partly for length reasons, I opted not to try any other games on the Rush besides the three pack-in games, but I do plan on doing a follow-up video covering additional titles.

High-resolution scans of the box and all of its contents alongside disk images of all four CDs are uploaded to Archive.org and TheRetroWeb.

[viviennevincent2]

I'm not the one who's so far away

When I feel the snakebite enter my veins

Never did I wanna be here again

And I don't remember why I came...

[iamromao]

[dimalink]

Restore legendary Pentium 2 and Voodoo 2 computer

New Year is already begun. Now we have 2024. New space cycle. And few space cycles ago, I started to restore some of my old computers. Part of them were mine since school days. Part of them, I buy for a low price. It is interesting for me, to restore some computers, and I was growing up with them, it is interesting. Or some systems from the past, which are very interesting to try out and look. It is not necessary to be a strong powerful systems. It can me middle or not powerful, let’s call it slow or weak systems. Everything is interesting.

So, from time to time, I am restoring old systems. I do it as episodes, not regular. So right now, I want to talk about my legendary Pentium 2. With system of three dimensional acceleration 3DFX VOODOO II. It is most coolest system ever. And it is also has a Sound Blaster Awe 64. It is very cool sound card. And as idea, as I remember, it has two hard drives. One is about 5 gigabytes, and second is about 50 gigabytes. As a rule, you can set to system a CD Rom, or DVD rom, even which can write discs, writeable.

At this moment system is already done. Everything is inside a strong metal case. So, computer has a big weight in result. I think it is because of metal case has a big weight, it is a big metal case. And it has a something like this system inside – Pentium 2 350 mhz with technology MMX, 3d graphic accelerator Voodoo 2, 64 mb Ram.

So, I find all the bolts, and tighten the bolts. Everything is done. My brother helps me to do that. Brother is very good in such things. And he reacts fast about some technological solutions. And it is opposite to me, in such questions. Some specific wires format. And more, if it is not enough some details. Every time my brother helps me with that. So, for example, I give myself a try to launch computer without cooler. This is like I do. My brother told me that it will not start up.

Pentium 2 processor has a form factor of cartridge. But no 8 bit. And it is like a cartridge. And cooler is going with him, on a cartridge. But it is good to set up with a wire between cooler and processor. Some connectors are very tight. So, I even don’t get what place to connect them. Again, my little brother helps me. So, for example, as for me, I never find out that at the border of motherboard, at the side, it is so little wires like power supply, reset, hdd ready, like indicators and buttons are there. At the mother board.

So, process of making this setup was interesting. It is very interesting to find out new things. And it was going in a different step. First, I collect all the parts. It was so long time ago, when it was working last time. So, I need to find the parts and to put them at the box. And later, to set it all at the motherboard.  And the idea that plus minus everything is ok about details.

Second step it was before New Year. It is about to setup all the parts into the case. Everything is all right. I give myself a try to start it up. Power is ok. But nothing happens. So, it is about a situation you need connect with wire a cartridge with second Pentium and cooler. But it can start. Computer makes a noise. And that’s all.

Next step is at celebrating times, already in new year 2024. It is about to setup bracing for processor Pentium 2. So, it is happening, that you need to setup a special bracing at the processor. Like a direction parts. So, we find these parts. And open the case with computer, replace all the details. To remove everything from motherboard. To screw everything off.  Because of bracing is set from the downside of motherboard. And then they rise up. And at the top you put into this bracing a processor.  As a cartridge slot it works. For example. Unusual system.

Today, it is clear, that there is no way to find little wires. As brother said 3 pin – molex. To setup cooler and processor. Plus, to this there is no wires to setup motherboard and cd rom. Atapi format or something like that. It is good to gather wires. Right now, there is no wires. But it can be without cd rom, for some time. There is a network card 100 mbits, instead.

System is almost restored. And it can be one more try to start it. It is interesting what it is about hard drives. Is it still installed Windows Millennium or not. Last time it was Windows Millennium.  It is interesting what games it has installed. As idea it should everything at their place. So many years passed. So, I am restoring slowly my school system. For me it is a legendary system. I spent with it so much time.  

So, lots of games I launch with it. I tried visual basic there, for example. And played a lot in Arcanum, Fallout 2. Doom 2 I played a lot too. In Half Life when it was released. In a different Need For Speed 3,4,2,2 special edition. In GTA 1,2. In GTA London – I and my bro played a lot. Carmageddon 2 it was a cool cd. My brother is a big fan of Blade of Darkness videogame. And it was a first time to play it in Pentium 2. I remember how much I played in Grandia 2. It is such a cool Japanese role playing game with good graphics, port from Dreamcast.  And I played in emulators too, of first Sony Playstation.  

So, this way I first to play in Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy 7,8,9. My brother likes a lot game Final Fantasy 8 for PC. I am talking about a PC version of the game. He played a lot. So, for some time it was his favorite game. Here we played a lot in Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 4.  So here we launched first time Might and Magic 6,7,8. My brother likes a lot shooter Sin. It is also a good game.

At first this system has installed Windows 98, and later Windows Millennium. It was a short time, it was installed Windows 2000. So, at this moment I run into Quake 3 CD.  Brother buy this game. And bring home. It was exciting graphics! It is bad one thing, it has no casual levels, no story, episodes. But graphics is cool, and action is good!

With this system I get the idea what emulators are. With modem. When a game for NEs to download about half an hour, for example. If you are lucky then 20 minutes. Or maybe it was a time for Sega game it is. It happens about 40 minutes.  So, this details a I don’t remember already. Nes games should to download faster, as a rule. And Sega and Super Nintendo more long time.  I opened for myself emulation of MS DOS. Using DOS BOX. I try some isometrical Ultima. It is about island, forest. First time I played in Sega, Snes. First Sonic, for example. I played it with all the time making save files. I like a lot to setup scanlines.

First time I try out what is it Ultima Online. World of online is very exciting thing. So many deals to do for a schoolboy there! Such a nice memories. To grind, upgrade skills, explore world. To build a little house, to collect resources. So, I remember that, I learn skill animal taming. And I can tame ostrich.

Nice soft it was, as I remember. Windows Media Player with such beautiful interface. Windows Media Player classic with standard interface for style Windows 95/98. WinAmp is a cool player. And I remember, from time to time I have installed Kaspersky antivirus. Good thing. But system was loaded, that’s for sure, for some time. And it makes a system to freeze, slow working, and you need to wait. It happened like that. Without it - it everything works fast. Of course, I used program Word, a little Excel. Notepad.

And at this system, I see for the first time Video CD. Interesting format. And I remember I was impressed when I play in Command And Conquer 2 about a video sequences. Such a cool graphics, and also a cinema movie. Strategy and action movie. And later I and my brother played a lot in Red Alert 2 Yuri’s revenge. It was a game for a long long time.  And playing in Counter Strike with bots. And I played with my brother at this system. In counter strike, Rage of Mages 2. And I remember how we dig maps (explore maps slowly). So, we take a big map and clear it from monsters. Try to find new items. Brother played with a new pc. And I with this machine.

It is amazing, and at this Pentium 2 machine. A pne as I called it, stump, as a joke. I played in a second Dune. It was very good game. It was launched easily, without any problems.  But it is for MS DOS. Here I played a lot in F 22 Lighting 2. It is something like simulation, but arcade too, it can be played nice. Lots of time for Duke Nukem 3D.  I remember how my brother brings CD Atomic Winter.  What a game! It is winter and a new levels! It was interesting! Video quest X files, I like a lot. It goes as a video! It is very amazing investigation! Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy. So, it is very serious game. So, it is like shooter and something more.

So, yes, it is connected lots of good memories with this system!

By system. So, I am without wire to connect cooler. And there is no wires to connect CD ROM. And everything else is restored. Case is complete. Strong metal. Every part is setup.

From time to time i like to play videogames. And write about it. Dima Link is making retro videogames, apps, a little of music, write stories, and some retro more.

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[cultlifecollective-blog]

I SEE NOTHING SOME TIMES

[voodoorhythmrecords]

[alo-officialgf]

greedy is short?? hello?

[creativegraphixlife]

[williamgart]

The spooky season comes for another round! I made some designs to celebrate it! Check out my Redbubble if one of these designs tickles your interest. I also have other designs on my page you might like. The support really does help.

[rius-cave]

Adamsapple Harvest Day 20: Possession uhhh, kinda lol

My secret power is stretching prompts so I can draw what I want dkfjdkgdf (I got permission from the event mod so I win :)

Beware, this one is very kinky and graphic lol Voodoo doll kink is so underrated

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