anthony wrote on 2021-02-20, 07:51:
W.x. wrote on 2021-02-20, 05:42:
Most of the retro comunity needs only something like voodoo3 3500 with 32-bit, and larger textures and as add-in PCI card without 2D. It would be used only for Glide games anyway, for anything else, Direct3d power accelerator would be used. I would much more exciting with voodoo4 for PCI slot and ability to run as 3D only Glide card same as voodoo2, than with 4-chips solution overpriced behemoth.
I also don't need original one... just give me Glide card into retro computer for cheap, and I will be happy. 😀 It CAN be replica, I don't care.
I have a plenty of projects covering a whole range of 3dfx cards, except Rush and Banshee. None of them cheap, sorry.
"Sorry"? You don't have to sorry. 😀 I didnt ask for anything. You probably misunderstood my post. I didnt ask for it, I've just told "what retro community wants" , and that it would be much more better to save 4 chips, for 4 other cards than use it for v5 behemoth. Of course, I've meant it by company, that remake it. Not hand-made cards... hand-made will be always overpriced, that's for sure.But when some company get for example 1000 or 5000 chips, they could make lots of cards from it, and it will not be so overpriced. Problem is of course legal Issues with Nvidia. Because of that, it never happen, because Nvidia would want lots of money for it for sure, to allow it. And after it, it would be worth only with 50000 chips or so. And such big project will never happen.
I was just commenting regards what people said, they said, that it doesnt have sense, because voodoo5 eats 4 chips etc... and it will be overpriced. And also, that they want original, not replica. That's not true. Most of people want voodoo cards only for option for Glide games... they dont need voodoo5 power. As primary card for opengl and Direct3D, there are much better cards , like Geforce 4 Ti, etc... they need it only for Glide. And that's where voodoo3 power is complete enough... they only need it in form of PCI add-in 3d accelerator. Also AGP 4x would not mind, to be able to use it with 1.5V AGP slot.
That "sorry" at the end of your post, was like you took it serious, I want such card. I dont want. I already have voodoo2 and voodoo3, I dont need anything else. Of course, voodoo2 with 32-bit rendering and 1024x768 would be handy. Dont need to take voodoo5 because of that. Cause I screw my primary AGP slot with weak voodoo5, that sucks in recent games. I would rather take Geforce 4 Ti/FX5700 combo with improved voodoo4 for PCI addin option... that would eat up only 1 Chip. Much better option, than to waste 4 chips for some behemoth, that will be overpriced because of that.