Reply 60 of 106, by Trashbytes
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Unknown_K wrote on 2024-04-20, 01:00:People who played GLIDE games want a Voodoo 3dfx card and since they are no longer made, they are valuable. Once DirectX was the only API supported then ATI and Nvidia were the ones to get.
I don't game on my Powermac G4's but I do like the ATI 9000 since it works good in OS 9 and OSX. You have less options for Powermac G5 AGP and a handful for the last PCIE based ones.
I only want 3DFX because I really liked the Glide API, I like the history of what 3DFX was trying to do and the technology they bought into the 3D gaming space. I always wanted to have at least one of each of their significant cards just so I could throw one into a period machine and actually play the games built around the 3DFX card for that era. I really dont care about their perceived value they will never be sold on, I bought them for my own enjoyment and to have a bit of GPU history.
While 3DFX is no more there are people still making Voodoo cards based around the remaining stock of VSA 100 GPU dies using reversed engineered PCBs, with modern components and better designed PCBs these modern 3DFX cards trend to be more performant than their older siblings while keeping backwards compatibility. They even have them running on the PCIe bus so even a modern system could in theory be used to mess around with the GLIDE API.
That said .. cheap they are not but .. the remade Voodoo 6000 is a thing of beauty.
Every thing above can be applied to the Pentium Pro, its a part of history.
I have a question, how fun are them G4/5 Power Macs to use ? The supply of both here in Australia is rather good and I have always loved the design of them especially the G5 with is sexy sleek Aluminium case. Im not a Mac person but owning a G5 is pretty tempting.