3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox

KingofGnG writes with this excerpt from King Arthur's Den: "One of the forthcoming versions of the best PC-with-DOS emulator out there should include a very important architectural novelty, ie the software implementation of the historical Voodoo Graphics chipset created by 3dfx Interactive in the Nineties. "Kekko", the programmer working on the project with the aid of the DOSBox crew and the coding-capable VOGONS users, says that his aim is the complete and faithful emulation of SST-1, the first Voodoo chipset marketed in 1996 inside the first 3D graphics accelerated cards on the PC."

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Re:How will people get copies of Windows 95?

[TheRaven64]

It's possible that they could secure a license to it from Microsoft. A stripped-down version of Windows 95 that didn't include any of the apps and could just run one program full screen (no printing subsystem, no explorer, no drivers for anything other than the specific DOSBox config, and so on) would be pretty small. Given that MS isn't currently selling Windows 95, they might be willing to sell it again.

On the other hand, WINE has pretty good support for Windows 9x APIs now. It might be possible for DOSBox to provide a minimal win32 layer using some of that code.