The classic 3Dfx logo is special.

archsan wrote:

The classic 3Dfx logo is special.

I've always been fond of the Dreamcast Swirl. Simple, understated, yet immediately recognizable. Whatever graphic designer came up with that probably got a bonus. 😜

I'm 43 years old and we had a video game shop during this period. In my opinion, 1 thing would have helped the DC more than anything else, a DVD drive. At the time it would have cut out much of the piracy that was running rampant. Also one of the big selling points was the DVD on the upcoming PS2, at the time stand alone players were running at the cost of the projected, then pre-order prices of the PS2. DVD was a big deal back then.

ElectricMonk wrote:

And the infamous "decelerators" used the CPU for most of the grunt work, especially the operations that weren't implemented (or were implemented improperly), so those tasks got shunted off to the CPU.

Seriously, go dig up articles that interview Scott Sellers, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Ross Smith. They explain it better than I can.

So I spent some more hours going trough interviews and found nothing like that. If you can point me to the source, or give example of feature "decelerators" left to CPU as opposed to Voodoo Graphics, it would be much appreciated. I am trying to take you seriously.

Putas wrote:

ElectricMonk wrote:

And the infamous "decelerators" used the CPU for most of the grunt work, especially the operations that weren't implemented (or were implemented improperly), so those tasks got shunted off to the CPU.

Seriously, go dig up articles that interview Scott Sellers, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Ross Smith. They explain it better than I can.

So I spent some more hours going trough interviews and found nothing like that. If you can point me to the source, or give example of feature "decelerators" left to CPU as opposed to Voodoo Graphics, it would be much appreciated. I am trying to take you seriously.

I can't find the exact quotes online. I'll probably have to torrent old back issues of PC Gamer, Maximum PC, etc... from that time frame, to find the quotes I was talking about. It was around the same time the nVidia PR person got caught telling porky pies about TNT or TNT2.

This link has nothing to do with the quotes, but I did find an interesting 3DFX Oral History interview with Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Ross Smith. It's 2.5 hours long, and I haven't watched the entire thing (dealing with GNS3, Virtualbox, PRTG, and ProfSims is my top priority right now).

When I can find and scan the quotes I'm talking about, i'll upload them. If I can't, I'll publicly admit I'm wrong. Fair enough?

The 3DFX Oral History did not really expose anything new. Take it easy, I am here for knowledge, not apologies.