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3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP. Voodoo3 was a series of computer gaming video cards manufactured and designed by 3dfx Interactive. It was the successor to the company's high-end Voodoo2 line and was based heavily upon the older Voodoo Banshee product. Voodoo3 was announced at COMDEX '98 and arrived on store shelves in early 1999. [1]
The company hired hardware and software teams in Austin, Texas to develop 2D and 3D Windows device drivers for Rampage in the summer of 1998. The hardware team in Austin initially focused on Rampage, but then worked on transform and lighting (T&L) engines and on MPEG decoder technology.
Support full-screen games under DOS, Windows 95/98, etc. Support for game development tools including Gemini OpenGVS, Multigen, GameGen, SGI OpenGL, Glide, Direct3D, MiniGL and Autodesk 3D Studio under DOS, Win32 and IRIX. Resolution up to 800 × 600 and higher resolution through SLI (Scan Line Interleave), up to 1024 × 768.
Drivers were again an issue with S3's product; holding back overall performance and causing compatibility issues with software and hardware. Savage4 was hardly a match for the new 3dfx Voodoo3 , ATI Rage 128 , Matrox G400 , or NVIDIA Riva TNT2 .
After the success of the 3dfx original, several other manufacturers followed 3dfx in producing MiniGL drivers. At the time, the OpenGL API was almost universally agreed to be superior to the then new and immature Direct3D system from Microsoft , so following the arrival of the various MiniGLs, many programmers sought to use them in other ...
This is the first 3dfx graphics chip to support full 32-bit color depth in 3D, compared to 16-bit color depth with all previous designs. The limitation of 256px × 256px maximum texture dimensions was also addressed and VSA-100 can use up to 2048px × 2048px textures. Additionally, 3dfx implemented the FXT1 and DXTC texture compression ...
Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards, motherboards, modems, sound cards and MP3 players; however, the company began with the production of the TrackStar, an add-on card for IBM PC compatibles which emulates Apple II computers.
The King of Fighters '98 (KOF '98), subtitled Dream Match Never Ends in Japan or The Slugfest elsewhere, is a 1998 2D arcade fighting game released by SNK for the Neo Geo system MVS, AES, CD. It is the fifth game in The King of Fighters series and was advertised by SNK as a "special edition" of the series, as it features most of the characters ...