Just found this old graphics card in the loft...

Duke · 22 Jul 2010 at 12:07

Banshee?

KnightsWhoSayNi · 22 Jul 2010 at 12:31

I had one of those, I think its a Voodoo 3

Cooners · 23 Jul 2010 at 19:34

Wow thats going back a bit, I had a Voodoo 3 card as my first GFX card, I thought it was greatest thing ever made once I put it in and got to play Quake 2 for the first time. Didn't keep it though, shame.

AtaRo · 23 Jul 2010 at 23:02

that card is nice for resident evil 1

pingwing · 23 Jul 2010 at 23:15

MissChief said:
Sigh, good times, other than trying to get a bootdisk to let TIE Fighter work properly!

*cringe* me and my dad sat and learnt how to do that so i could play the flight game that came with my cd copy of theme park for my dual pentium pc (well it was sco's but i used it for games with 2 pentium pro's and a decent scsi drive)

Found the legendary s3 1mb card needed to power the even more random tekbright t50 lcd screen, one of the oldist iv ever come across and needed a 26 pin lcdport which was only ever on this one card... Threw away all the retro pc stuff though as this card can only just do civ 3....

roddypoddy · 23 Jul 2010 at 23:25

Lovely that is,i had one,cost a fortune at the time.
And i see thief was mentioned in a post,i have that very game on my desk .
Also in my locker at work i have a voodoo card of some description,got to look and see who made it,found it the scrap bin when a number of old rigs were scrapped,along with some sdram,133 i think.

arc@css · 23 Jul 2010 at 23:45

Fantastic Ultima video, KelticDaz.

Reminds me of Dungeon Master.

hlennie · 24 Jul 2010 at 00:30

first card i had was also the power vr chip thought it was a great card for quake 2 my jaw dropped when quake 2 booted up for the first time, this post has brought back so many memorys of playing games

loved the ultima series, eye of the beholder, dungeon master so many hours spent on those

speaking of old games what ever happened to space sims last good one was freespace nothing come close since

AxeMan · 24 Jul 2010 at 00:59

hlennie said:
speaking of old games what ever happened to space sims last good one was freespace nothing come close since

Dont forget the fantastic, and, my favourite as a 14 year old boy, ELITE for the BBC microcomputer ( early-mid 80's).....Amazing stuff. Gave me goose bumps when i saw it for the first time round my school friends house. Cutting edge stuff mate. Glorious days.

TAC4U · 24 Jul 2010 at 02:05

MissChief said:
I'm sure I still have my first graphics card, a Diamond Stealth 64 of some sort at my mums.

OMG, I still remember that card. I was so excited when I first got one. I also remember owning a Diamond Viper, a Voodoo Banshee and a Savage4 (the one with S3TC, which was awesome with UT). Wasn't it a Vesa Local Bus card? Gah, I just realised how long I've been into PCs for. I can't even remember my first graphics card... it's whatever came in the old IBM 8086 I had.

darael · 24 Jul 2010 at 08:02

=VTA=MANFACE said:
I just remembered I found this the other day, anyone know what it is ?

Easy - 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 with 16mb RAM. I had one.

nightmare99 · 24 Jul 2010 at 08:25

The Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro is my "precious" it's boxed and sealed and has never been opened or used ! A brand new old card.... the card that introduced Hardware TransForm & Lighting and introduced the whole new term Graphics Processing Unit aka GPU to the world.

Ahh man I had that card I think it came with a game called Evolva Scout, what a weird game that was.

Also had a Hercules Geforce 2 64MB (I think).

Nogimmix · 25 Jul 2010 at 23:18

It's amazing to think back and how long I've been in the computing and building PC's. Saying that though I feel for some people on this forum it's become an obsession

Subliminal Aura · 26 Jul 2010 at 00:54

lol Shall be benchmark them ?

I too stumbled across one today whilst looking for stuff to sell

Mine's a Voodoo 3 I believe also saw the big massive breakout cable in the loft yesterday too.

EDIT: Blast I've found a review, if only I read it before shelling out top dollar for it :|

http://www.anandtech.com/print/351

Mr-White · 26 Jul 2010 at 11:18

Duke said:
Banshee?

I had a 16mb Voodoo Banshee, before getting a 128mb 5500 on the cheap when 3DFX sold up

MW

233 · 26 Jul 2010 at 11:31

AAh I remember the good old days having an uber leet(at the time) pair of voodoo2 cards running in sli

Funnily enough my dads still running a ti4200

razer1978 · 26 Jul 2010 at 12:45

straxusii said:
That was my first graphics card

my first card was a matrox mystique i think it was 2mb or something silly paired with a 233MMX and about 256Mb edo ram, but not long after getting the matrox i got this exact same card after reading all the reviews i could lay my hands on, GL quake was awesome and really got me into pc gaming in a big way...... oh them were the days LOLz

razer1978 · 26 Jul 2010 at 12:49

Mr-White said:
I had a 16mb Voodoo Banshee, before getting a 128mb 5500 on the cheap when 3DFX sold up

MW

forgot about the old banshee, wasn't it the first of the 3dfx cards to be both 2d and 3d?

ThomasTheTankEngine · 26 Jul 2010 at 13:43

ooohhh.. I wanted one of them for quake. I used to run it in 320x200.

Looking at old hardware like this always makes me sad though. In a few years time my 5850 will be just as useless as an old 3dfx.