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Oh man, nostalgia levels through the roof! I remember buying my first 3D 'accelerator card' as they were called back then. It was a Voodoo Banshee card. The Ba
by LeonM 8y ago
Oh man, nostalgia levels through the roof!
I remember buying my first 3D 'accelerator card' as they were called back then. It was a Voodoo Banshee card. The Banshee had an onboard 2D video chip, so it didn't have the VGA passthrough cable.
I bought the card at a trade show (the Dutch audience here will remember the 'HCC dagen'). That's where you could buy them cheap. Not sure if it was actually cheaper, internet wasn't very useful back then, so there was no easy way to compare prices.
I didn't have a computer of my own yet (I must have been 14 years old or so), so I bought it for our 'family' computer, an IBM P166. I remember getting up super early to put the card in before my dad would wake up. He would certainly have freaked out if he saw that I opened up the expensive computer to put it some gaming thing.
Good times.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoHaha, this pretty much mirrors my story exactly, except a couple of years later with the Voodoo3. Dad included! Good times.
- ZoomStop 8y agoRemember clearly buying my Voodoo Banshee from Babbage's for $250 USD. My high school girlfriend at the time was so annoyed that I would spend so much on something so strange at the time. GLQuake blew my mind, but I was just trying to get Daggerfall to run acceptable more than anything at that point, and run it did.
- rasz 8y agoYou probably meant Redguard, Daggerfall sadly lacked any 3d acceleration support.
- time0ut 8y agoYa, this brings back some memories. I also had a Voodoo Banshee. I put it in my AMD K6-2 with 192MB of RAM. This was right around when Windows 98 came out. My friends all had similar rigs. We were on the quest for max frame rate in Halflife, TF1, and original CS. It was a different time back then.