3dfx Voodoo Graphic Card Emulation Coming To DOSBox

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @05:53PM from the but-1996-feels-like-yesterday dept.

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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Great Job! by hairyfeet · 2010-10-19 17:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

Gotta give the DOSBox guys credit, they make the best even better! I can't wait until Good Old Games have Voodoo built in to their custom DOSBox game installers! Instant Voodoo, whoo!

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Voodoo emulation originally written by Aaron Giles by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-19 18:24 · Score: 5, Informative

As per TFA, the Voodoo emulator is basically lifted from MAME. Granted, integrating it into DOSBox is important work and all, but I would judge the original code to be worth more than 90% of the effort. Yet Aaron gets no credit in the summary.