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Navagon: Not as such. But I still have fond memories of my Voodoo5 5500. It was a beast in its day.
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affenkopf: Voodoo was the best, never had any driver or other problems with any Voodoo card . I was crushed when they went away.

I hear that, I was a big Voodoo fanboy back in the day. I still have my Diamond Monster 3D somewhere. You guys remember those, where it only did 3D, so you had to daisy chain it to your 2D card. And then i had a Creative Encore DVD decoder card, also had to be daisy chained... And now it's all in one card...
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michaelleung: I miss my old Riva 128. Good times.

omg samesies!
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michaelleung: I miss my old Riva 128. Good times.
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captfitz: omg samesies!

Let's start a club.
So about old good hardware that I got:
1. C-64G
2. C-64C
3. Commodore plus4
4. Commodore 116
5. Commodore 128
6. Commodore 128D
7. Amiga 500
8. Amiga 600
9. Amiga 1200 (powered by Apollo1240)
10. Amiga CD32
11. Commodore CDTV
12. Philips G7000
13. Some other stuff that I don't even remember :)
I'm big good old hardware enthusiast. :)
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affenkopf: Voodoo was the best, never had any driver or other problems with any Voodoo card . I was crushed when they went away.
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Navagon: Yeah, it's a real shame they squandered away their money so recklessly. It seems crazy that the dominant manufacturer could blow their whole fortune so easily.

Yeah, and these days people do that all the time.
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michaelleung: I miss my old Riva 128. Good times.

I had one of the first models of that card from Diamond Multimedia. It was the 4MB PCI version before the AGP's ever existed. If I'm not mistaken, STB Velocity was the first to get their AGP riva 128 to market - so I had that one as well.
It was the first chipset to dethrone 3DFX as the Quake killer (max fps). Although their OpenGL driver was in Alpha stage forever - no gamma/brightness. I remember having to hang blankets over my office windows and jack the monitor brightness wide open to see anything in Quake. This was back in the days of everyone running MCD (mini-client) OpenGL drivers.
Ever since the riva 128, I pretty much ran a nvidia based chipset with voodoo add in boards - for the best of both worlds - glide and direct3d.
For voodoo's, I had the Diamond Monster 3D 4MB voodoo 1. After that I held out until the 12MB voodoo 2 came and then bought 2 of those on release day (at $300 USD a piece) to run in SLI. Creative Labs was the first to get their 12MB voodoo2 boards to market so I had 2 of those. That's still one of my more memorable hardware purchases to date.
I always felt 3DFX "blew their wad" with the voodoo 2. I wasn't a big fan of their hardware after that. By the time the Quake 3 engine came around, that 16 bit color and 256X256 texture limitation of 3dfx's with the voodoo3 became painfully obvious. By the time they supported better quality video, it was too late - grossly overpriced hardware that performed inferior to Nvidia's.
As for ATI, they really didn't become a serious contender in 3d until around the 9700 pro days.
I was digging around in my parents attic the other day and came across my old Amiga 1200 with, wait for it ... a 4MB internal hard drive. I'm dying to set it up again, mainly to see if I can finish a game of Civilization AGA version I know is installed on the HD. Also, the old XCOM:UFO Defense should be on there too.
I'm kind of scared that when I flick the power switch, the whole thing is going to blow up in my face. Or even better, suffer the Y2K bug. :)
Amiga 1200 does not suffer Y2K - I have played on it not so long ago - with AmigaOS 3.9 and games installed on HD using WHDLoad. Cool experience :) Love that old hardware - shame that I have to work and don't have much time to play with it :(
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Navagon: Not as such. But I still have fond memories of my Voodoo5 5500. It was a beast in its day.
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affenkopf: Voodoo was the best, never had any driver or other problems with any Voodoo card . I was crushed when they went away.

3dfx was great. I still remember jumping from 486dx with 1MB card to Pentium 2 with 16MB Voodoo 3 3000. It still is my favourite card (for it's time of course).
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guayar: Amiga 1200 does not suffer Y2K - I have played on it not so long ago - with AmigaOS 3.9 and games installed on HD using WHDLoad. Cool experience :) Love that old hardware - shame that I have to work and don't have much time to play with it :(

Good to know, thanks.
Actually, I have just thought of another old piece of hardware that is often overlooked: the old knob-head joysticks we used to wiggle frantically back and forth because some genius thought that would be a good way to simulate running.
Does anyone know why manufacturers never developed rubber feet/suckers that actually stuck the joystick to the table properly, when in use?
Question to the AMIGA fans: What the hell happened to the AmiOne project? Was it ever released or what?
And since we are talking old hardware, please tell me i'm not the only one who shelled the money for a SegaCD 32x combo unit back when that thing was hot.
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affenkopf: Voodoo was the best, never had any driver or other problems with any Voodoo card . I was crushed when they went away.
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Paradoks: 3dfx was great. I still remember jumping from 486dx with 1MB card to Pentium 2 with 16MB Voodoo 3 3000. It still is my favourite card (for it's time of course).

Glide ensured they kicked the crap out of every other manufacturer of its era. D3D was terrible back then. It took ages for it to become passable.
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Lobsang1979: Actually, I have just thought of another old piece of hardware that is often overlooked: the old knob-head joysticks we used to wiggle frantically back and forth because some genius thought that would be a good way to simulate running.

The old competiton pro joystick you can find it here
I stumbled across that site a few days ago and I am seriously tempted to get an A1200. Prices start a £99 for refurbished or £149 for a new system, both with 1 Year warranty and you can configure your own system
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Delixe: The old competiton pro joystick you can find it here

Wow, I still have one of those. Many great memories...
I remember how happy I was when I picked up my Stealth card and Voodoo2 back in the day. I bought both for $50 from a friend, and it allowed me to play all the newer 3d games at the time, and served me quite well until I needed to start looking at newer games around 2000 or so.