The 3DFX NetVista Auction is now live at: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264777687005 - 100% of the profit goes to BrighterFutures, a charity supporting NHS Hospitals in my area. Thank you for your support! Neil - RMC

@dan_loup

3 жыл бұрын

The "softening" of the picture also comes from a filter the 3Dfx cards apply to make the dither less obvious as they render at 15bit precision. It works pretty well.

@leebumble

3 жыл бұрын

What ever happened to AGEIA PhysX? I was watching an old video from 2006 showing off it's capabilities and was pleasantly surprised. It's got quite the history too. Have you any experience with this tech RMC?

@JohnnyWednesday

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for thinking of the NHS Neil :D

@PeTTs0n88

3 жыл бұрын

@@leebumble nVidia bought them, pretty much. The tech got integrated into their GPUs but it never really took off, neither before nor after the acquisition. It had its weaknesses (awful fluid physics, for example) and the dedicated hardware was ridiculously expensive for what you got. There wasn't a lot of development, and competing tech pushed forward making PhysX a relatively obscure tech in the end.

@richardestes6499

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like the perfect candidate for ArcaOS.

Doesn't want someone swearing, proceeds to run over tons of pedestrians.

@SiD3WiNDR

3 жыл бұрын

Scrolled down to comment exactly that :D

loved the easter eggs you left on the LGR machine lol the voices were epic.

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I was giggling like Ron Swanson while loading them up

@SiD3WiNDR

3 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro You're a dork. A lovely, funny, dork. ;-)

@remasteredretropcgames3312

3 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro I have entered the chat.

@remasteredretropcgames3312

3 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro Yeah. That employee was doing Gods Work. If only programers were more plentiful along the spectrum of friendly and useful ship mates. Its proven a barren darwinian island fest of men. Many with no sense of honor.

@remasteredretropcgames3312

3 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro The PC Master Race is largely unaware of my power levels exponential cambrianogenesis.

Remember seeing Unreal's castle flyby opening for the first time on my friend's Voodoo2. Instant jaw drop, burned into memory forever. (Also that amazing mod music by Alexander Brandon and Michiel Van Den Bos).

My 3DFX card of the 90s was my first true jaw dropping experience when playing Quake via Voodoo hardware. This card not only provided severely enhanced effects, but improved your PCs framerate.

@goonerw27

3 жыл бұрын

Played Quake 2 to completion with the software renderer multiple times. Then got a Voodoo2 and OMG the coloured lighting alone was worth it. Used to great effect (one great example was early on in the second zone where you pull a power core and the white overhead lighting is replaced by dim, red coloured “emergency” lighting from the floor).

@goonerw27

3 жыл бұрын

@securitycountercheck "computer updated"

I had a Pentium 90 and played Carmageddon on it in software mode. Later on I upgraded to a Celeron 333 and installed a Voodoo Banshee into it and my life changed forever. I'll always miss you 3DFX 😘

I had the original Voodoo (in an Orchid Righteous flavour) before moving up to a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. Motorhead and Sports Car GT wear my racers of choice in that golden late 90's era. I'll always have a place in my heart for 3DFX.

Neil: "I burned this onto a cd for them - the emulator, definitely NOT the roms, I definitely DID NOT give them roms" Officer: "He's lying. Get Nintendo on speed dial and I'l send the boys in."

I always love the logic of "We don't want anyone swearing, but I'm going to plow through all these pedestrians, scattering blood and brains on the road" :D

Carmageddon was superb it also kept me going back. :)

When I think about the 3DFX, only 2 games pop into my mind. One of course being original Unreal. To this day no other game has wowed me as much as that did. My oldest brother used to play it with software rendered graphics first because we couldn't afford a 3DFX card, but we eventually saved up for one and the difference can't be described with words. The other game is a more obscure one, and that's Montezuma's Return. I could never afford to buy the full game since I was just a child and I remember playing a demo of it over and over and over again. I was so in love with that game, and I can still remember those 2 stages the demo allowed you to play inside and out to this day :D My jaw dropped so hard onto the floor when I tried it in 3DFX mode for the first time and saw all the incredible enhancements it brought with it. Smooth edges, much better lighting, high resolution textures, the 8 year old me was in complete trance. Unfortunately I never managed to save up enough money to buy the full game, but that demo and those 3DFX graphics will forever stay in my heart as one of the biggest WOW moments I ever experienced in gaming. I miss those days so much. No new generation of tech has even come close to that wow-factor the 3DFX brought to me. Thanks for the nostalgia trip with your personal picks with the 3DFX experience Neil. :)

@arnechino

3 жыл бұрын

Montezuma's Return (PC) Cutscene - Ending (HD): kzread.info/dash/bejne/hZxk0LRrk82ag9Y.html

First thought seeing you lying on the floor: "Self-Isolation has effected him far more then we ever thought!" Second was : "He's probably hurt his back in some way!"

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

A bit of pot B and a lot of pot A

3Dfx cards, so magical back in the day.

Just an FYI... Toca touring cars evolved into Toca Race driver, Then Evolved into GRID.

Good old memories. I had a Pentium 200 MMX, with that same sound card. Creative Voodoo 2 and a S3 Virge DX. I bought the Voodoo 2 to play Final Fantasy 7. It was awesome. I also played a little gem called Shogo: Mobile Armor Dividion. I still have goose bumps when I watch the opening theme.

The 3DFX Voodoo cards hold special memories for me. My first job out of University in '98 was at Codemasters on the Brian Lara Cricket team, the first thing I was tasked with was to port the game's software renderer over to the Glide API. I still remember the joy of getting those first textured triangles rendering on the Voodoo. A little relieved too, maybe they hadn't made a mistake hiring me after all! The card's separate video output was actually really handy for a dual monitor setup, one for debugging, and one for the 3D output.

Wing Commander Prophecy was the game I saved up all my allowance to buy a Voodoo video card. It was so worth it, I loved that game and the graphics were so beautiful for the time!

I had 2 Voodoo 2's in SLI. Sometimes they didn't mesh correctly, but when they did, it was 90's heaven!

@sotkajarvi

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I had two Diamond Voodoo 2's. I can't remember if it was the 8 Mb or the 16 Mb cards I had.

@lemagreengreen

3 жыл бұрын

SLI let you use 3DFX games at 1024x768 too!

This gave me so much nostalgia. My first PC was a windows 95 machine. I was 8 years old and my brother was 10 years old and both of us had no idea what drivers where. So for the first year we owned the PC we played everything without sound as the driver was not installed. Than a friend came around and installed them for us and we almost cried with joy.

I hope your back gets better soon!

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

My computers back then never had any sort of 3D accelerator which made me sad sometimes as I couldn't play games like Driver originally nor did PS1 emulate at full speed but seeing those games running on - well - retro machines from today's standpoint made me smile since I know just how hard it was to run most games back in the day. A feeling that went lost and only really can be achieved when trying to play games at 4k resolutions with fast framerates really. Not even VR is all that demanding anymore, really. But that's how times change and I was happily watching this video for over half an hour. Thank you!

I had P200mhz with Matrox Millenium 2D card back in 96 or so. Oh boy when i got 3D Diamond Voodoo card! Played Tomb Raider and Carmageddon all day long;) 3D from voodoo really blew my mind, there was nothing before that what could do 3D even close. That was nice time to game.

Screamer 2 was my JAM back in the day!

Viper Racing and the original TOCA were my favorites at the time, mostly because of the damage management. I had a Logitech force feedback driving setup that worked perfectly with them! Good times! A lot of fun!

Ah, POD Gold, MDK, Wingcommander IV.... so smooth in glide...

28:36 Oh, this car handles like a Boat! - Mr. "I definitely NOT give them ROMs", 2020

27:20: That brief moment when the sound loop after the crash makes you wonder briefly if it's still playing properly and just has a killer bass lick.

point to Lara and says "definitely had the jaggies" without a hint of irony. Polygons were scarce in the 90s

You're a good guy, my friend, with a big heart!

0:09 I feel your pain brother.

Get well soon , nice physian is a life saver

Remember having 2 of Voodoo 2 cards in SLI with Matrox G200 card . That was a beast then to run games 1024x768 resolution. First i remember getting an Elsa Voodoo 2 card with 12 mb, like just few day after launch , but it had some weird glitches and issues in my setup so replaced it 2 Diamond cards, and they run perfectly. Next in the line was Voodoo 3 3500 TV VIVO with that blue thick cable that came out of the graphics card to be placed on the desk with all in and outs. what a time it was.....

Back then I had Hercules Stingray 128/3D (Voodoo Rush). The transition from software renderer to 3DFX was mind blowing... Loved to play Star Wars Dark Forces II Descent: Freespace Shadows of the Empire Johnny Herberts Grand Prix Championship 1998 and later NFS Porsche 2000 (the best NFS imo)

Those days of the Voodoo 1 cards were amazing. Every month I'd check the cover disks on PC Format and other PC gaming magazines to see what new 3DFX patches had been released, as some of those patches were quite large to download.

The game that floored me when I got a Voodoo 2 on my Pentium 120 was Wing Commander Prophecy. When I first saw a portal it was a thing of pure beauty. As for TOCA, I loved TOCA III, but then Win7 came along and the copy protection was incompatible, and they did not patch it. I loved that game.

Used to love Viper Racing, remember having to write a patch to make it run under Win2k/XP. Retro hacks! Great video.

I remember the original TOCA Touring Cars! It ran pretty well on my Voodoo1, and had great sound effects. I used to watch the real touring car races at Snetterton too. Great memories. I hope you get well soon, Neil.

I loved my 3dfx card - i still remember putting on Tomb Raider and being blown away by the difference it made over the software version. A few years on and I had dual voodoo 2 cards, good memories!

@pelgervampireduck

3 жыл бұрын

all games looked better and ran faster, the difference was like going from ps1 to ps2, it was insane!!.

Viper racing was fun. I loved the damage model. There is a button you can bind that will cause the car to flip, and you could just keep flipping the car and it would get more and more crushed, until it was compressed down to just a wheel bouncing around

You can only lock the butler in the freezer in the second and third Tomb Raider games :) . Speaking of TR2, it originally required a 3DFX card to run in hardware mode but then they made a patch for it to work with DirectX 7 or newer.

An awesome video of an awesome hardware, we can never forget the legacy of 3dfx!

Need for speed 2 special edition was really great fun and good looking with the Voodoo glide settings. Driving around as a big T-Rex, never gets old LOL!!!

@me0262

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the music was amazing!

@goonerw27

3 жыл бұрын

Remember the bug with the installer? It would detect if you had a Voodoo 1 and copy over the glide version of the executable but if you had a Voodoo 2 it didn’t. You had to install the game, then grab the glide exe off the cd and run that one.

what a great, perfectly legal racing move!

Cool! I used to have a Matrox 2D card and 2x Voodoo2 in SLI mode. Wow, the speed! Cool to see the old stuff again. I also still have the original Porsche 2000 Unleashed and Tomb Raider lying around as well. Really trip down memory lane..

My brother and I played so much Carmegeddon on our old Pentium 200 back in the day. Looked so much nicer after we saved up our christmas money and got a voodoo card with a whopping 16 MB of video memory.

Yes! Toca Touring Cars was a BRILLIANT bit of software. If memory serves, Codemasters consisted of some of the UK's finest at that time. Thanks for another wonderfully nostalgic video.

Viper Racing. That brought me right back to my childhood. That game was a lot of fun. I recently found my disc hiding in the old Pentium III Compaq laptop I used a lot. I'll have to give it a spin again.

When I first started working in IT we got a single Voodoo card (voodoo 1) in for a client, I still remember my boss calling us all in after he had it all set up in the client's PC to show us how awesome it was. A few years later we sold a few systems with the Voodoo Rush, I believe Voodoo 2 was already available but the rush was marked down. I salivated over the voodoo cards for years until I got my hands on an Nvidia Riva TnT2 and finally got a taste of true 3d acceleration. People think GPUs are expensive today, back then they cost an absolute fortune. A voodoo rush would have set me back 2 months salary, 3 if I payed bills. Today, you can pick up a mid range or even a mid/entry level GPU for between $100 and $200 and experience the same architectural capabilities as a $1000 card (excluding RTX obviously). In the early days, entry level meant a different architecture and almost always, a totally different vendor. An S3 Virge or ATI 3d Rage was "affordable" but in a completely different, lower league. I both miss and don't miss that era, on one hand, it was exciting and full of innovation and new tech breakthroughs but on the other, you payed through the nose to actually experience them and more often than not, they were out dated in less than a year.

"You have a momonet of smoothnes when you look at the toilet" That's deep, i felt that.

4:30 PowerVR? Yeah I had one of those. A really early one. It was also 3D only so it used your regular 2D card through the BUS! Yup! It had to contend for bus bandwidth with everything else when sending frames to your video card. Unbelievable! Of course the Matrox demos worked great! NO GAMES AT ALL WORKED. :D

7:57 Thought that was Tomb Raider 2.

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

It is indeed, and that's why I couldn't find him :D

@SD-tj5dh

3 жыл бұрын

The nervous farty wreck he was. Even when the door was shut his head used to poke through 😂 then doing double jump backflips round the main hall after turning on the music player. Aah nostalgia.

@nalinux

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like Tomb Raider 1 first, then TR 2.

@BreakingBrick

3 жыл бұрын

TR2 and no Venice Violins?

I had an early Orchid Righteous 3D which was one of the earliest (if not THE earliest, it's a bit unclear) original Voodoo cards. The early Orchid brand ones were quite special because they had electromechanical relays on the PCB that made a distinct *CLACK* sound when they were initialized by a game! It was SOOOO satisfying because the Voodoo card would *CLACK* inside the computer and then immediately the original 3Dfx spinning logo would appear when the game was loading. I wish i hadn't sold that card, but i brought it to a LAN in the early 2000s with the intention to sell it and someone showed up who needed it to get decent framerates in Counter-Strike and he bought it.

Ouch! Take care of that back. Feel better soon.

A beautiful PC with two of my favorite cards! Stunning.

Viper Racing !!! I loved it.... and indeed just this view of the front axle...

Your foray into 3D accelerated games mirrored mine exactly - up until Ultima. I loved TOCA (And TOCA 2). Finding a 3DFX patch for a game I already had was like hitting the jackpot! And OMGosh - Carmageddon - many, many hours wasted playing that! Thanks for the drive down memory lane, mowing down pedestrians along the way.

Wow this brings back so many memories, I'll never forget the sheer joy I had finally playing NFS Porsche 2000 and Tombraider as they were meant to be played with 3DFX. Was a total gamechanger.

I remember playing carmageddon the first time in a police station. My dad was a policeman and they had had a computer program you could trade in worked hours for discount on a computer. They had one example standing in the office and we could try it out. Playing carmageddon in a police station was a little bit surreal. Haha will never forget it

17:00 "It's in the game!" I thought the same thing. :) My first PC (1999) came with an i740, but I picked up a Voodoo Banshee card at an auction later that year and it was magical. Sure, the textures could be a bit chunky, and IIRC the colour depth in 3D was 16-bit, but the framerates were always high and consistent. The 2D performance was remarkably good too. I remember many hours immersed in Unreal, Driver, Star Wars Episode I Racer. It seemed to be worth seeking out Glide games specifically as they ran so well. Oh, anyone else remember Trickstyle?

Amazing just took me back to 1996 / 97. I had these exact games on an Intel Pentium 200, Matrox Mystique (2D) and an 3dfx Orchid Righteous 3D. Carmeggedon was the most unbelievably cool thing imaginable when it was released along with GLQuake. Good times dude, good times.

These NetVistas are where I first learned capacitor replacement (I did a few boards like that). Of course, in the zSeries test lab we had the proper equipment to do the repairs (the desoldering gun had a good sized compressor attached to it). If I intend on doing any desoldering now I'll have to settle for a squeeze bulb and solder braid.

How cool! I haven’t seen a CTX monitor in almost two decades.

Ahh brings back some memories! 3DFX and Carmageddon.

My Voodoo 2 racing game killer app was Colin McRae. I also loved a little Tony Hawk Pro Skater, G-Police, Incoming, and once the Lucasarts X-Wing games discovered 3d graphics, I was in heaven.

Seeing Carmageddon and NFS Porsche definitely brough back happy memories.

This was an extremely nostalgic episode for me, primarily because this original hardware came out at a really ideal time for me. I was born in '80, and about 18 years old, a junior in high school, working a part time job with no real financial responsibilities. I put a lot of time and money creating a gaming pc. Just seeing that pass through vga video cable sent me right back there. I had 4 devices by the time I graduated, adding a Riva TNT2, a creative labs DVD kit with hardware mpeg decoder, and a generic tv capture card that I never got to work well. Emulators in general, and the rapid success of HLE, and Final Fantasy 7 and 8 getting PC releases really made me feel like consoles have died. For me though, the high point of that era, was playing Xenogears on Bleem, waiting for the next patch to get past latest breaking point in the game.

After finishing the video all I can say is that kid Neil is kid me, damn we nearly played exactly the same games and the amount as well. So many old racing games I have fond memories of and love to revisit from time to time

carmegeddon...loved it

Some huge nostalgia here! That said, I was mostly about the FPS games in the Voodoo era.. which meant Quake, basically :) The Voodoo2 was the ultimate upgrade for Quake 2, it was just such a huge improvement that it became almost standard hardware... even better if you had two in SLI. Anyone remember the predecessor to Battlefield 1942, Codename Eagle? Weird game, had a pretty fun multiplayer though - great at LANparties back in the day. Like you Voodoo2 was as far as I went though, TNT2 Ultra after that and then Geforce cards.

EF2000 + Wireplay + 3DFX patch....Heaven :-)

I remember viper racing!. One of the first games I played on my newly built pc at the time!. It was a p3 450, 64megs of ram and a TNT Riva 16meg graphics card. Used to play a lot of racing games with my dad and brother using a saitek steering wheel. Used to see who could get round the tracks the fastest!. Fond memories looking back :)

Nice rug.

Love these more casual videos.

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! After the last series I just wanted to relax a little with some gaming, and to show off this machine. I'm glad you enjoyed the format.

@hellcoreproductions

3 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro You're welcome! This channel is refreshing with its laid back approach, but I understand, from the few I've done, even the simplest looking videos can be anything but. Having fun with these machines is the important part... still regret leaving the old kit in the parent's loft to get tossed. One day I'll find another A1200 as a bargain.

P90 + VooDoo 1 = WOW! Jaw dropped on the floor when out of software rendering and into 3D acceleration.. Monster Truck Madnes, Descent were first 2 games I had a chance to witness accelerated 3D revolution. Then MDK, Turok, Tomb Raider, Carmageddon, Screamer 2, Star Wars, Quake, Quake 2 and Unreal... Played the hell out of NFS: Porsche. Good old times. P.S. Over next 15 years not much changed, then I got my hands on SSD and that was WOW factor that was long forgotten.

Wow what memories this brings back. My coworker got a Orchid Righteous and it was incredible. I remember watching him testing out a lot of these games. Pentium MMX was top of the range in processors at that time. We built a lot of those systems. SD Ram was hitting the market too. I built myself an AMD K6 machine and later added a Matrox Power VR2 card. I really should have went 3dfx. It just never was as good. I guess you can't go through life without having a few regrets haha. Thanks for this video.

Pentium 1 233mhz mmx, voodoo 3 pci 16mb, 128mb of ram chiming in. Even played midtown madness 2. What a beast

A favourite of mine I think from 98 is MotorHead. They worked wonders with the software renderer but the 3D mode(s) were just magic... made even better by several patches.

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

That had a great soundtrack too as I recall. A really great looking game with glide.

Incoming was the very first thing I saw on 3dfx when i worked in a computer shop and i was amazed. Just got myself a voodoo3 agp card, will be playing through unreal first i think.

Viper Racing was the first car racing game for PC sporting realistic setup and upgrades. Nice taste! Also Ultima IX while not good had an hypnotic atmosphere of its own, and the music from the ruins of New Magincia... And NFS Porsche, what a masterpiece! Great taste mate!

Definitely remember Incoming. I think my family had the ATI Rage edition.

This does bring back memories. I still remember getting my dual Voodoo 2 SLI setup going, and the Quake 2 performance blew my mind. My GeForce 256 later blew it out of the water, but it was still insanely awesome.

Viper Racing! I loved that game, the car damage was great :)

Viper Racing! I forgot ALL about that game wow. I played a lot of it as a young chap and remember being very impressed. Thank you for this one. Edit: I also distinctly remember a cheat code to drop a giant ball into the game. Very fun.

30:18 It actually has happened today, im playing Mario Oddyssey and Pokemon Sword for the Switch on my PC!

TOCA Touring Cars was indeed a great game! Also fellow Voodoo 2 owner here. Three dimensional magic.

Great memories with those games and running them on my Voodoo cards, I had that creative banshee as well and the box might still be someone at my dads attic.

In 1998, I used a Voodoo 1 on Linux, to play Unreal with wine on my 233 MMX @ 290 MHz and 96 Mo ram. A beast for this time :) It worked perfectly, and was so stable I usually was the server to play on lan with friends :)

I played the hell out of Carmageddon 1 & 2 back in the day. Loved them!

My very first 3D card was voodoo2, then voodoo3 3000 and 3500. The 90s were the best for gamers not like the 21st cent. I remember Carmaggedon was banned in many European countrys because of hitting pedestrians, later they swapped pedestrians to zombies. I played a lot NFS Porsche 2000 on my PC, it was one of my favorite racing games and the music is stunning.

Loved seeing a 996 C4S in game! I bought one just before lockdown, my mid life crisis car Neil!

After much time playing Quake in a tiny window on my Pentium 75 I upgraded to a P2 300 (it was going to be the 266 but the 300 came out the week I was buying the parts) and a 3DFX card. After weighing the processor (because it really was that huge in the cartridge format) and getting it all put together the first game I installed - Quake - and when it ran in 3DFX for the first time - WOW! I didn't play for ages, just stood staring at the intro. Then - Unreal - Uber WOW! - never ever went back to software rendering - except for the odd retro experience in recent years.

My first 3D-accelerated game experience was PC Turok through a 3Dfx card in 1997. We actually had the system going through a VGA projector (huge beast, about 10 times the size of a typical 1080p unit today) projecting a screen about three metres across on the wall of the Computer Multimedia Lab. It was so far beyond anything I’d seen at the time. From memory 3Dfx was on the way out by the time I got myself my first PC it had a Nvidia TNT2 card which was pretty darn incredible. None of this pulling back detail or resolution to get good gameplay - just crank all the setting and rock it!

I had a Matrox Mystique from 1996-1998; my next computer was a Dell with a Pentium II and some sort of crappy ATI AGP card; I installed a voodoo2 and was the coolest kid around. I remember the dates well since 1998 was the year I graduated high school.

I still think of that 3dfx splash animation as the "new" one. :) I remember the green textured lettering on the earlier one, and seeing the new one after a driver upgrade.

20:35 - cue Spoony screaming "BETRAYAL!!!" at the top of his lungs...

I have to admit that I prefere the software look over the 3dfx accelerated one. But in those days, the real cool thing about voodoo cards was the frame rate. Unbeatable

Video got me all nostalgic man love the videos

Loved my voodoo cards at the time. My first 3D card was the Creative labs 3D blaster with a Rendition Verite V1000 chip on it. It ran quake 1 very well, and it looked even better than the 3dfx cards that came out later.

@davel231

3 жыл бұрын

Voodoo cards could definitely push the polygons, speed was top-notch. But they rendered in (if I recall correctly) 18-bit color, so image quality wasn't always the greatest. Edit: I recalled incorrectly. Early cards were 16-bit color, later products rendered internally at 32-bit color but had a 16-bit framebuffer. They then did some postprocessing on the image to produce what 3dfx called "22-bit color".

@a500

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. The Vérité was my first as well. VQuake had a better look to me. Also flight unlimited, and NASCAR were my early 3d titles on the first 3D Blaster.

Carmageddon is such a classic. I also went from Voodoo 1 to Voodoo 2 Banshee - good times 👍

I was trying to think of a game a few weeks ago, and this video brought back the memory! Screamer 2!!!

@RMCRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to have helped!