The Good Ole Days

[Reverend]

The top stuff, feelings and folks that I remember the most over the past 10-15 years :

3dfx
ICQ
GLQuake with a Voodoo Graphics card
Unreal with a Voodoo Graphics card
"Why a TnL card isn't required yet" by 3dfx on a 3dfxgamers web page
"Why we're a leader and others are followers" by NVIDIA when announcing the(ir) first TnL card
Alf Covey
Scott Sellers
Derek Perez
Alex "Sharky" Ross
Billy "Wicked" Wilson
Giovanni Caturano
Andrew Humber
Chris Donahue
Slava Gostrenko

and most important of all :

"3 Fingers", for getting me started

 

[_xxx_]

You forgot your idol.

 

[Guden Oden]

3dfx paradoxically did more than any other company so far to hold the industry back. While the voodoo graphics and voodoo2 did things right by focusing on sheer speed, by the time the voodoo3 rolled around they were already slipping into obscurity. Unfortunately, their historically dominant position meant game designers took their hardware into account when making their games, thus limiting textures to 256*256, keeping everything within the small on-board memories of 3dfx boards and other similar quirks.