History of Video Cards and the GPU

[Pete]

Good link, Rage. Nice to see the article was updated, as it's worth a read in case anyone missed it the first time around.

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: L00PY
I think I have a Vesa Local Bus card lying around somehwere. I've may even have an ISA one.

I have one lying around too (a VLB card), but nothing that old had any accelerated 3D functions, so they don't really count

And I feel dumb for forgetting about vQuake (which is what I bought the V1000 for, not GL) it was definitely an improvement over software rendering. But GL Quake on a Voodoo was so glassy and gorgeous (at the time) it was kinda freaky. a guy I knew back then even recompiled the DM maps so that the water was transparent in GL, though you still couldn't see people in the water from above. Or not in the water from below. That would have been major cheating anyway

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I had some ATI card with 8MB of memory with the 4 MB expand card. It was one of the most powerful consumer computer available when built :laugh:.

 

[shabby]

I remember when i first bought the voodoo 1, i was scratching my head when i was supposed to connect it to my regular video card. Two video cards, no way!
Then i loaded up glquake and almost fell off my seat, good times