Remember 3Dfx?

**Blackbird686** · July 23rd, 2017, 13:17

Cleaning out the dusty old closet the other day and came across some older computer components (from the days when I was into building them) and found new in the box, or near new I reckon, a 3Dfx VOODOO 5/5500 video card. I remember the PC I was using at the time and I was running a VOODOO 4/4500. I was a firm believer in 3Dfx products and was sad to see them eventually disappear after NVidia bought them out. Those were really the early days of flight simming for me. I had Jane's F-15 and MS CFS2 installed on that old homebuilt computer and it did a pretty fair job of running them both.

BB686

**Ivan** · July 23rd, 2017, 13:44

I still remember those days because I am still using their products and mine are older than yours.

The Voodoo 3 2000 on my "Game Machine" is still going strong though it has problems displaying some models.
It always had those problems, so it is nothing new. It is a Windows 2000 machine.

The Voodoo 3 3000 on my old "Development Machine" is starting to have problems and I don't know where to go about finding a replacement.
This one is actually a Windows 98 SE machine and I hesitate to retire it because it would mean that I would not be able to use some utilities that do not run on the later Operating Systems. Yes, I have tried, but these are probably DOS utilities.

- Ivan.

**Naismith** · July 23rd, 2017, 19:37

Still have the Jane's discs for F-15 - wish I could still run it. Almost as in depth as F-16 BMS. Many of Jane's titles were marvellous, same crate I see I still have the Apache Longbow II discs.

Back then it was every few weeks and a new sim was released.