The days when Quake 2 went from 320x240 with slow frame rates to 1024x768 with faster frames rates on my Pentium 120. It was on a 16mb Voodoo 3 2000 pci. I still play Q2 with nglide (3DFX) on a GTX 970 @144 fps lol. That game never gets old.
LellePrinter82 Hang on to that V5 + box, they're going for prices similar to when they were new 15 years ago. I know I'll be keeping mine until I shuffle off this mortal coil!
Started with 3ds dos, then lightwave for years and now Cinema and Houdini. Lightwave will always have a special place eventhough NewTek made LW irrelevant
The first graphics card that I purchased at CompUSA in 1999 for my first new PC was a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (I didn't have an AGP slot).I initially tried a Nvidia TNT card out but returned it because it had butt ugly colors in European Air War (a PC Flight Sim). It turned my lame what I could afford $399 eMachines etower 300K into a decent gaming machine though I had some other upgrades to do to it.It was no Pentium II or III beast but the 3FDX card made up for a lot of that eMachines gaming capability deficiencies. I was satisfied with that 3DFX card though.It still works to this day though I had put a CPU fan on the heat sink to cool it down (works so much better that way). 3DFX should have put fans on those Voodoo 3 cards as the passive cooling just wasn't sufficient at the time (you could burn your fingers just touching the heatsink and the graphics card could quickly develop problems and fail because of excess heat due to intense long gaming). As I remember there was an enormous amount of gaming titles that utilized 3DFX's Glide API and it was so much better,more detailed and much more 3D like than those Direct X API PC games at the time. If you chose the other non 3DFX chipset cards you were seriously missing out if you gamed during that era. Both ATI and nVidia had the 32 bit color thing except that very few if any games at that time used 32 bit color so it was meaningless.32 bit color would be more accurate for photography though.nVidia had the highest Direct X frame rates though and ATI had those great feature rich TV Tuner cards.Sad that 3DFX went belly up as they were easily by far my favorite graphics card chipset company. This episode is just an amaing time trip back to probably my favorite era of computing as I had microcomputers since 1975.
Same memory as myself. My 1st 3D accelerator was a Voodoo 2 12MB from Guillemont. That card really opened up a whole new world to me when it came to PC gaming, I was awestruck by the higher-res, the non-blocky walls in games, etc. MUCH better than the Nintendo 64 when it came to graphics, me, my family, and my friends were all amazed by the Voodoo 2.
Had a Voodoo 2 and a Creative Banshee then a Voodoo 3 This is what made PC's sell for gamers, Quake and Tomb Raider were killer games for a pc at the time.
3dfx was awesome, it really made PC gaming to what it is today. I've kept all my games from back in the 3dfx era and recently refurbished an old pentium 2 computer with a diamond direct 3d and voodoo 2 card. ^^
I got a great version of NFL Blitz with my Voodoo Banshee but they stupidly tied the game to the card! I couldn't play this game on any other 3dfx card! I still remember how awesome the racing game Whiplash was that came with my first Monster3D Voodoo1 card. Voodoo2 and Voodoo3 were great too. It's a shame that Nvidia won. Especially when they were touting 32-bit graphics even though their cards were too slow to run games in 32-bit color so you ended up running games in 16-bit just like 3dfx.
+JohnnyNismo Before accelrated graphics it wasn't so clear-cut. Mostly high-end rigs pre-dedicated graphics were capable of better quality and incredibly expensive.
You are, of course, correct. Before graphics APIs, it took more to get console quality graphics out of a PC. That was in the 16-bit era though. By the time the 32-bit consoles hit the market, PCs were catching up and surpassing consoles. I currently own a Sega Saturn, PS1(2) and several generations of retro computers from the 286 to Core 2 (a hobby of mine). It's amazing to see how fast PCs advanced from the 486 onward.
This episode aired nearly a year before the PS2 came out, and half a year before the Dreamcast came out. They were going up against the Playstation 1 and N64, both of which ran at 320x240 resolution.
If your interested, there is a line of PPC Computers/motherboard called the AmigaOne. The AmigaOne is the PPC successor to the highly popular 68k Amiga line of PC's. They are build to run AmigaOS and other OS's like Linux. New motherboards are coming up but they are expensive tho due to small batches being manufactured, but there are also cheaper models like complete Amigaone 500 and the AmigaOS compatible SAM 440. But non the less, they are completely awesome :)
I didn't found Quake 2 to be a very impressive demonstration of a 3D accelerator here, sure there is a lot nicer color pallet but it wasn't really noticeable here. Unreal would be allot better to show of, as software rendering misses a good bit of detail like reflection on certain surfaces and the frame rate difference would be allot more noticeable. But the best would be showing of an S3 Savage running some S3TC levels, would have make his jaw hit the floor :) but hey, 3Dfx is great as well :)
i remember them. I stuck with the brands common in the US. Diamond Monster3D, Monster2. Then V3 was from 3dfx themselves. My Banshee came from Quantum3D. The Quantum3D Raven 16MB card. they made it so that NFL Blitz and Gex only worked on this card! I couldn't play these games on any other 3dfx card!
patg108 I know its a bit late to answer, I missed the notification of the comment in my inbox, but what the heck.. The AmigaOne isn't you would say a clone, but the architecture is very different from the original Amiga series. In the late 90's Amiga were upgraded with PowerPC processors, AHI (an interface like Directsound) compatible Sound hardware and Picasso96 & warp3D (two other interfaces) Graphics cards such as the Radeon 7000. It became a cluttered mess so in 2002 Amiga inc made the AmigaOne line. an A1 is essentially an Amiga without 68k cpu or chipset but with AOS compiled for PPC (the real deal, no lookalike) and using those interfaces above for hardware. Its more of a natural progression than a clone or replica. You're right about it not being very popular , but the very dedicated user base is slowly growing.. but yeah, its not going to face off Apple or Dell anytime soon.
June 27, 1999 These 3D graphics are better than a lot of stuff floating around in 2014 , Well my Samsong Stuff is a bit better but it could really take advantage of these high end cards from the late 90's , They had more Gold and were built with Care , much nicer for the user :) QC
I don't think the hardware back in 1999 is anywhere near a 1000th of what it is now....its just the developers don't utilize it to its best !! (lazy programming)
what's the AmigaOne? a amiga clone or replica or something like that? don't think they're actually getting back into the big time pc market these days. Never had or used a amiga so just curious on the laymans.
I know your pain buddies, I never had a voodoo until 2002, when I bought the 5 5500 agp, a couple of years later I bought the 3 3000 agp just for nostalgia but I never had the voodoo 2 back in the days to play fucking quake on it, I hate my parents lol
yeah, I buy Nvidia when they have the best card at the time I buy. But if AMD/ATI has the best when I need to buy (like building a new PC), I go for AMD.
22:40 1999 - now imagine 2 years later WTC, wall based on dozens of ~50cm columns made of 4x6.5cm thick steel sheets( precise thickness of most tank's armor) separated 2m away and two aluminium planes "coca-cola cans" going inside and passing trough such structure, including wing tips.. without slowing down, without being crushed, supposedly making substantial damage to "rows of tanks". Its almost as was made in Lighting 3D in just 5 min. Such powerful tool it was ahead of it's time. May it look silly but it was enought to deceive 6bln people into believe in fakery. Government made demolitions of NY icons adjusted by CGI to make you think danger came from outside..
@@E_y_a_l +Taranda on bitchute www.bitchute.com/profile/WZOxVBc6aHLG/ regading diameters of scructure in comparison to bridges, trucks and some real photos of real events. Wrote this comment during night, and i wanna be criptic, Comper Chronicles was sort of escapism from real world but couldnt resist association. Lighting 3D was ahead of it's times. BTW. Matrix *movie was released same year 1999, green letters falling down should be replaced in newer edit by CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC fake news media. Nabuhodonozor team was just watching the "news".
Yeah I remeber my Vodoo 2 came with a Game and some demos purely to showcase the capabilities of the card. It's indeed a shame that Nvidia took over 3dfx, after 3dfx died I pretty much avoided Nvida. I pretty much went with the ati radeon cards after 3dfx went belly up.
ehh... both have problems. I have cards from both Nvidia and AMD in my PCs and they're both good. I also do multimonitor and AMD has better features to me for that.
They were too cocky. Their downfall. The guy from 3DFX was so smug. I get being excited about your tech, but he just seemed way too cocky. And look where it got him.
The days when Quake 2 went from 320x240 with slow frame rates to 1024x768 with faster frames rates on my Pentium 120. It was on a 16mb Voodoo 3 2000 pci. I still play Q2 with nglide (3DFX) on a GTX 970 @144 fps lol. That game never gets old.
Have you tried Quake 2 RTX yet?
@@Edmundostudios Yeah Quake 2 RTX is amazing
I clearly remember the first time I installed my 3Dfx Voodoo. It was a game changer like no other.
I see what you did there.
Poor 3Dfx, poor Brian :(
Quake 2, PC Designed games for the PC. Those were the days..
I have two voodoo2 12mb cards, one voodoo 3 2000 pci 16mb and a Voodoo 5 5500 64mb agp. I still have the original package for the voodoo 5 card.
I had the Voodoo1 (Monster 3D), Voodoo2, Voodoo3 3000, and Voodoo5 5500. :D
LellePrinter82 Hang on to that V5 + box, they're going for prices similar to when they were new 15 years ago. I know I'll be keeping mine until I shuffle off this mortal coil!
+LellePrinter82 I had voodoo banshee 16 Mb ram
+Mitche23 OMG! Forgot my Banshee! I had the Diamond Monster Fusion one.
+Mister BluntSA All of them are used for vintage gaming machnies today. So the yall will sell good.
I only came here to see Lightwave. :D
Started with 3ds dos, then lightwave for years and now Cinema and Houdini. Lightwave will always have a special place eventhough NewTek made LW irrelevant
The first graphics card that I purchased at CompUSA in 1999 for my first new PC was a 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (I didn't have an AGP slot).I initially tried a Nvidia TNT card out but returned it because it had butt ugly colors in European Air War (a PC Flight Sim).
It turned my lame what I could afford $399 eMachines etower 300K into a decent gaming machine though I had some other upgrades to do to it.It was no Pentium II or III beast but the 3FDX card made up for a lot of that eMachines gaming capability deficiencies.
I was satisfied with that 3DFX card though.It still works to this day though I had put a CPU fan on the heat sink to cool it down (works so much better that way).
3DFX should have put fans on those Voodoo 3 cards as the passive cooling just wasn't sufficient at the time (you could burn your fingers just touching the heatsink and the graphics card could quickly develop problems and fail because of excess heat due to intense long gaming).
As I remember there was an enormous amount of gaming titles that utilized 3DFX's Glide API and it was so much better,more detailed and much more 3D like than those Direct X API PC games at the time.
If you chose the other non 3DFX chipset cards you were seriously missing out if you gamed during that era.
Both ATI and nVidia had the 32 bit color thing except that very few if any games at that time used 32 bit color so it was meaningless.32 bit color would be more accurate for photography though.nVidia had the highest Direct X frame rates though and ATI had those great feature rich TV Tuner cards.Sad that 3DFX went belly up as they were easily by far my favorite graphics card chipset company.
This episode is just an amaing time trip back to probably my favorite era of computing as I had microcomputers since 1975.
Same memory as myself. My 1st 3D accelerator was a Voodoo 2 12MB from Guillemont. That card really opened up a whole new world to me when it came to PC gaming, I was awestruck by the higher-res, the non-blocky walls in games, etc. MUCH better than the Nintendo 64 when it came to graphics, me, my family, and my friends were all amazed by the Voodoo 2.
best memories. my Voodoo3. my Voodoo2. even had the original Diamond Monster3D (V1).
I remember times when games were compared to arcades when arcade was like a top tier and everyone wanted to be like that :>
Had a Voodoo 2 and a Creative Banshee then a Voodoo 3
This is what made PC's sell for gamers, Quake and Tomb Raider were
killer games for a pc at the time.
they still are... at lest quake
3dfx was awesome, it really made PC gaming to what it is today. I've kept all my games from back in the 3dfx era and recently refurbished an old pentium 2 computer with a diamond direct 3d and voodoo 2 card. ^^
The golden days of modern technology!
Nothing will bring the pleasure and excitement like gaming did back then!
I got a great version of NFL Blitz with my Voodoo Banshee but they stupidly tied the game to the card! I couldn't play this game on any other 3dfx card! I still remember how awesome the racing game Whiplash was that came with my first Monster3D Voodoo1 card. Voodoo2 and Voodoo3 were great too. It's a shame that Nvidia won. Especially when they were touting 32-bit graphics even though their cards were too slow to run games in 32-bit color so you ended up running games in 16-bit just like 3dfx.
Stuart was the master of talking over and finishing the sentences of his guests.
21 years ago seems like 100 years ago, computers have evolved so much since then it is almost unbelievable...
THE GLORIOUS PC MASTER RACE! Of course you get a better quality gaming experience on the PC!
+JohnnyNismo Before accelrated graphics it wasn't so clear-cut. Mostly high-end rigs pre-dedicated graphics were capable of better quality and incredibly expensive.
Yeah back then, consoles just did it better. at this time the ps2 was always out.
You are, of course, correct. Before graphics APIs, it took more to get console quality graphics out of a PC. That was in the 16-bit era though. By the time the 32-bit consoles hit the market, PCs were catching up and surpassing consoles. I currently own a Sega Saturn, PS1(2) and several generations of retro computers from the 286 to Core 2 (a hobby of mine). It's amazing to see how fast PCs advanced from the 486 onward.
This episode aired nearly a year before the PS2 came out, and half a year before the Dreamcast came out. They were going up against the Playstation 1 and N64, both of which ran at 320x240 resolution.
It didn't mention that Antz was the first computer animated film to DVD!
PDI the makers of Antz movie is PDI now PICSAR
That's only 20 years ago!!We have 4k and 8k now
In 20 more years it'll be indistinguishable from reality.....and then we'll become a Black Mirror episode but Halo will be awesome!😂
2050 200" 88k
2:52 I played with arrows like him when I was like 9 years old... :D
If your interested, there is a line of PPC Computers/motherboard called the AmigaOne.
The AmigaOne is the PPC successor to the highly popular 68k Amiga line of PC's.
They are build to run AmigaOS and other OS's like Linux.
New motherboards are coming up but they are expensive tho due to small batches being manufactured, but there are also cheaper models like complete Amigaone 500 and the AmigaOS compatible SAM 440.
But non the less, they are completely awesome :)
And then Microsoft said GTFO and it was DirectX only, from that point on...
Heh wow, nice video. A fine piece of history.
I didn't found Quake 2 to be a very impressive demonstration of a 3D accelerator here, sure there is a lot nicer color pallet but it wasn't really noticeable here.
Unreal would be allot better to show of, as software rendering misses a good bit of detail like reflection on certain surfaces and the frame rate difference would be allot more noticeable.
But the best would be showing of an S3 Savage running some S3TC levels, would have make his jaw hit the floor :) but hey, 3Dfx is great as well :)
i miss this show
i remember them. I stuck with the brands common in the US. Diamond Monster3D, Monster2. Then V3 was from 3dfx themselves. My Banshee came from Quantum3D. The Quantum3D Raven 16MB card. they made it so that NFL Blitz and Gex only worked on this card! I couldn't play these games on any other 3dfx card!
patg108 I know its a bit late to answer, I missed the notification of the comment in my inbox, but what the heck..
The AmigaOne isn't you would say a clone, but the architecture is very different from the original Amiga series. In the late 90's Amiga were upgraded with PowerPC processors, AHI (an interface like Directsound) compatible Sound hardware and Picasso96 & warp3D (two other interfaces) Graphics cards such as the Radeon 7000.
It became a cluttered mess so in 2002 Amiga inc made the AmigaOne line. an A1 is essentially an Amiga without 68k cpu or chipset but with AOS compiled for PPC (the real deal, no lookalike) and using those interfaces above for hardware. Its more of a natural progression than a clone or replica.
You're right about it not being very popular , but the very dedicated user base is slowly growing.. but yeah, its not going to face off Apple or Dell anytime soon.
Didn't know that dentist from hangover movies worked for 3dfx
Haha. That's gold
June 27, 1999 These 3D graphics are better than a lot of stuff floating around in 2014 , Well my Samsong Stuff is a bit better but it could really take advantage of these high end cards from the late 90's , They had more Gold and were built with Care , much nicer for the user :) QC
I don't think the hardware back in 1999 is anywhere near a 1000th of what it is now....its just the developers don't utilize it to its best !! (lazy programming)
Lol I like when he shows the 3D clip art, the image he inserts is clearly not the same one he just made.
Bring me Glide back ! *(((
So nice
I'm looking for a 3d bumming game where you bum things. Anyone remember what its called?
what's the AmigaOne? a amiga clone or replica or something like that? don't think they're actually getting back into the big time pc market these days. Never had or used a amiga so just curious on the laymans.
I wanted a voodoo 2 so bad, never got one tho. Today my VGA is like 100000X times faster lol
I know your pain buddies, I never had a voodoo until 2002, when I bought the 5 5500 agp, a couple of years later I bought the 3 3000 agp just for nostalgia but I never had the voodoo 2 back in the days to play fucking quake on it, I hate my parents lol
I meant AMD got really messed up drivers for their graphics cards. That's one of reasons some prefer nVidia.
Is that a canoma demo At 0:32?
in 1999 they should have been showing off Half Life & Unreal, Quake 2 was out of date by then
***** Half-Life was officially released for PC in 1998. Even the first beta of the mod Counter-Strike was out by 1999.
They did show a snippet of HL.
Quake is never out of date
both Nvidia and AMD have flawed drivers. no way around that...
This will never happen, Hollywood will never accept Computer Generated Imagery in their films.
Never heard of Guillemot 3Dfx.
yeah, I buy Nvidia when they have the best card at the time I buy. But if AMD/ATI has the best when I need to buy (like building a new PC), I go for AMD.
Just let the Lightwave person talk. :)
Yeah. Back then most of the time we had jaws dropped but today's games no longer impress us I think.
And how do you deal with flawed drivers of AMD video cards?
did you notice the TINTIN poster in the back? 12:38
22:40 1999 - now imagine 2 years later WTC, wall based on dozens of ~50cm columns made of 4x6.5cm thick steel sheets( precise thickness of most tank's armor) separated 2m away and two aluminium planes "coca-cola cans" going inside and passing trough such structure, including wing tips.. without slowing down, without being crushed, supposedly making substantial damage to "rows of tanks". Its almost as was made in Lighting 3D in just 5 min. Such powerful tool it was ahead of it's time. May it look silly but it was enought to deceive 6bln people into believe in fakery. Government made demolitions of NY icons adjusted by CGI to make you think danger came from outside..
What the hell are you talking about?
@@E_y_a_l WTC obviously
@@E_y_a_l September Clues th-cam.com/video/cF0-nslm3j0/w-d-xo.html
@@E_y_a_l +Taranda on bitchute www.bitchute.com/profile/WZOxVBc6aHLG/ regading diameters of scructure in comparison to bridges, trucks and some real photos of real events. Wrote this comment during night, and i wanna be criptic, Comper Chronicles was sort of escapism from real world but couldnt resist association. Lighting 3D was ahead of it's times. BTW. Matrix *movie was released same year 1999, green letters falling down should be replaced in newer edit by CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC fake news media. Nabuhodonozor team was just watching the "news".
Renny Harlin movie said cia ordered earlier attack that killed 4000 geena Davis movie
That 3Dfx guy needs to SLOW DOWN, no one can understand you. xD
entertaniment industry and CGI 1998 the begining of the end
Brian was cute.
Yeah I remeber my Vodoo 2 came with a Game and some demos purely to showcase the capabilities of the card. It's indeed a shame that Nvidia took over 3dfx, after 3dfx died I pretty much avoided Nvida. I pretty much went with the ati radeon cards after 3dfx went belly up.
ehh... both have problems. I have cards from both Nvidia and AMD in my PCs and they're both good. I also do multimonitor and AMD has better features to me for that.
Quake 3D upscalor
Yea G3 PowerBook! Shep didn't wan't to hear it! PowerPC for life!
We're gonna show you Webcam! What doesnt require Web :v :v :v Epic :v :v :v
3D exalorator Blitz N64 , arcade 3:56
Voodoo 5 was latest they made until they became defunct.
They were too cocky. Their downfall. The guy from 3DFX was so smug. I get being excited about your tech, but he just seemed way too cocky. And look where it got him.
But games have changed in better way only graphically. All the various genres surfaced starting from 90s. Today? What do we have? COD.
Dinosaurus must die