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Video Card History

Posted by Hemos on from the walking-down-memory-lane dept.

John Mathers writes "While searching the net for information on old Voodoo Video Cards, I came across this fabulous Video Card History article up at FastSilicon.com. It's nice to see that someone has taken the time to look back on the Video Cards that revolutionized the personal computer. Here's a quote "When 3dfx released their first card in October of 1996, it hit the computer world like a right cross to the face. That card was called Voodoo. This new card held the door open for video game development. The Voodoo card was simply a 3D graphics accelerator, which was plugged into a regular 2D video card; known as piggy backing."

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  1. Nostalgia by CrayHill · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aahh, 1996...the good old days...

    I remember when we would write ASCII graphics contouring programs for line printers!

  2. Blurb from article by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article: "The cards released then were rather nuke warm. Nothing really special, nothing too different brought to the table..."

    Nuke warm cards huh? How many fans do you need for one of those?

    The Internet needs an editor or two hanging around.

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  3. Re:Revisionist History? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agreed. You can't have a serious history piece without also including S3(and the world's first 3D decelerator) and Rendition. The article pooped out before I got to page 3, but I'm willing to bet they've also managed to skip the Intel i740, another decent but notable product.