RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-11-11, 17:25:

The other alternative to switching bus speed, that I am considering, is the throttle blaster by Scrap Computing:

https://youtu.be/9uNml2j6sy0?si=6fsRGNRRFfkrG29E

That's rather more advanced though, and possibly beyond my soldering abilities. Lol.

That's pretty incredible. I had no idea such a fine degree of control was possible.

Nice. I’ve just got myself another 233MMX system after selling my first one a few years ago and deeply regretting it 😢 it’s good to be back! 😎

The Pentium MMX + Voodoo 1 is my favourite machine. So versatile. I prefer it even to my overkill XP and 98 builds.

It obviously does have limitations, but it lived in an era where game developers where basically doing the impossible. Games like Quake really seemed like they should be impossible on this hardware. Also Voodoo 1 brought a whole new life to 3D games. Again, the impossible was made possible. Or so it seemed.

Its immediate predecessor (original Pentium) came out around the time full motion video games released. 7th guest, Wing Commander iii, Tex Murphy - under a killing Moon. Etc. Which was another huge change to games.

I had a voodoo2 in my last build. I bought it in early 1999. I am kicking myself for selling it. Especially as I didn’t get much for it.

FullYes wrote on 2025-11-12, 19:35:

I had a voodoo2 in my last build. I bought it in early 1999. I am kicking myself for selling it. Especially as I didn’t get much for it.

I never had Voodoo 2 back in the day. I had a Voodoo 1 then a Riva TNT then a Voodoo 3 2000.

I had a socket 5 Pentium 100 machine with S3 onboard video. My only experience with the Voodoo cards in the 90s was from magazines and friends who happened to have one. It's great this hardware still works, and we can (re)experience it in modern times.