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The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA (hackaday.com)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 week ago

I had a Voodoo 2. I was salty at my parents that they got the 8 MB version instead of 12 MB. But I couldn't formulate my frustration because I didn't quite get the difference between system and graphics memory yet.

Still it was amazing how fast everything was. I spent hours just switching weapons in Jedi Knight. And Unreal was just drop dead gorgeous in Glide. No comparison to Direct3D or OpenGL.

And it included a demo of a rotating donut with bump mapping which would be toutet as this amazing new graphics feature decades later.