0078 A broken Book 8088 laptop, Voodoo 2 frustration and some TV parts
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Published 2024-01-24
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All Comments (21)
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I remember bringing home my brand new Voodoo3 3000 and launching Quake II in Glide mode after having played it in software for months. Closest thing to a religious experience I've ever had.
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Even if you didn't experience what a DOS 3DFx Glide game was like, at least you now experienced how it was to try to get them to run properly!
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I'm sorry the TV board got broken. It was working, to answer that question. As for the VooDoo2, I found it some years ago with a friend at a goodwill in Madison Wisconsin. I was never able to figure out how to make it work, and to be honest I didn't mess with it much.
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Looks at a battery icon. Sees tube of toothpaste. Damn I love ADB videos!
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Please don't butcher the voodoo card for the connector.. the original bridge cables can't be that hard to get hold of. Or use a regular VGA extension cord, those also work. The Banshee was quite unimpressive back then.. I know several of my friends trading them in for a separate Voodoo2 12MB and a 2D card. S3 Trio64+ were the cheap PCI options, or Intel i740 if you had AGP (and the 3D part of those intel GPUs was awful compared to the Voodoo2, but they were dirt cheap so they sufficed for the 2D job).
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The driver CD I found on Internet Archive for the 3D Blaster Voodoo2 has a glide2x.ovl file right in the root directory, not in an installer archive. The IA item ID is 3DBlasterVoodoo2CD-ROM
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I remember a friend who got a Voodoo 2 in '98 and I was somewhat jealous, but by the time the Voodoo 2 came out it was a given that you were at least running Windows 95 and if you ran DOS games you were launching them from Windows, or restarting in DOS mode, but either way the DOS drivers were installed and configured through a Windows program. That being said, I remember him also complaining about DOS compatibility issues with his card even then.
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Adrian: This is a super mini mail call video. Me: Looks at the timeline, this is a 45 minutes video. Me: .... This is why I love Adrian videos ;)
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The minipro does test SRAM, but you had 27c256 typed in the search box. Oddly the minipro software in my experience doesn't clear the search if you switch chip types, thus it had nothing to show you. If you clear the search box, the software should then list out the SRAM it does support to test.
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I remember spending $750 for two Voodoo II along with an AGP 2D card, back in the day. I couldn't believe spending that much, but it sure played nice. Die by the Sword was a game that was amazing on those cards. I was running Windows 95 or 98 on that box. I think I might still have it in storage somewhere.
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Thank you for the metric conversions! Canada still loves you.
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The first 3dFX card that had both 2D and 3D was the Voodoo Rush card, based on the Voodoo I chipset. It was crap. The Banshee was based on the Voodoo II and was much better, however it did have some problems running games designed for Voodoo I cards (it ran Voodoo II games usually without issue).
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Not unusual for DOS. The first level of any game was getting the bloody thing to work! 🤣🤣
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I didn't even know you could use 3dfx cards in DOS. Grabbed a copy of GTA dos and stuck my Ensoniq 3d Banshee in a machine. Was able to extract the OVL file from the reference installer with WINRAR on my win10 desktop and spent an a bit playing in 3dfx goodness! After a reboot to fix the sound driver, black screen!
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I had the PowerVR card and loved it. For the price, it was actually pretty good. The Nvidia Riva TNT/TNT2 were giving 3DFX a serious run for their money at the time of the Voodoo 2.
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This video pretty much sums up retro computing quite well. Sometimes, nothing works. :)
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I actually just sold my old STB Voodoo 2 and its pass-thru cable. It’s nuts how much some of those old cards sell for.
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Grand Theft Auto's one of them pure nostalgia games for me, never got to play it on any 3DFX cards, but played it so often on my Olivetti P75 system back in the day, and then come august 2013, I found a boxed copy of the game in amongst a pile of rubbish left outside the back of this house (from which I picked many other things too), and I had a different but same-spec Olivetti P75 system already, I was so happy for that find for reliving the experiences!!! :D
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I had 2 Voodoo 2 cards in SLI mode... that was badass
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I still have my old machine - it did some other things then did another thing then was in a closet for ages until I put it back together during the plague - and I still have my Voodoo Banshee :D But it was also this era (and the XBOX) that got me out of PC gaming because I couldn't afford those new cards every bloody year, and I was console-only for a long time.
