• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if it can run Quake, it can safely run Doom as well.

    The original Voodoo 1 graphics card could run Quake, but NOT Doom. Thanks Obama!

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      7 months ago

      Only because the Voodoo couldn’t do 2D at all - it had a passthrough on the back, so you’d connect your 2D-capable graphics card to it.

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        Oh, I’m aware! It just felt funny that the very first consumer dedicated 3D graphics card prove that poster’s assumption wrong. In any other case they’d be right. In fact, in those days in 1996, there was the SECOND graphics card that had a 3D processor that DID do 2D graphics too, the Sierra Screamin’ 3D (with the Rendition Verite GPU). It was about 2/3ds the cost of the Voodoo 1 (3DFX) even if the Sierra wasn’t quite as fast. You’d buy the Sierra because you wanted dedicated 3D but couldn’t afford a high end 2D card and the high end 3D card.

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        7 months ago

        IIRC the Voodoo 5 6000 also required an external power supply and people thought this was crazy at the time.

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          Obama seen as a black person could be accused of being able to do ‘black magic’ or voodoo.

          It’s just a dumb thought, nothing more to it.