I love this 1st logo, better than the laters.
A few years ago, I played with an Arduino and an Oled 128x64 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdZBKGngYw

I couldn't find an official high res scan of this logo (if any of you have the mousepad it was printed on, please scan it!) so here's my attempt at upscaling and redrawing parts. I think it's as good as it will get:

nali wrote on 2025-09-25, 12:25:

I love this 1st logo, better than the laters.
A few years ago, I played with an Arduino and an Oled 128x64 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdZBKGngYw

Very neat!

altarofmelektaus wrote on 2025-09-26, 23:44:

Very neat!

I think i will build one again, and place it instead of the badge decal on my K6 😀
An Oled display is about the same size.

Given that it's rendered in 3D, one could presumably extract the geometry from the driver and make an arbitrary-res version in blender or whatever

altarofmelektaus wrote on 2025-09-26, 11:49:

I couldn't find an official high res scan of this logo (if any of you have the mousepad it was printed on, please scan it!) so here's my attempt at upscaling and redrawing parts. I think it's as good as it will get:

Absolutely beautyful!

Should be posted in the background wallpaper thread!

[edit] background->wallpaper

To build my Arduino thing, I used a good definition video I found.

First download the video.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Quote: "By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't pass any options. "

$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8UvDRc_rdo
$ mkdir pictures
$ ffmpeg -i The\ Classic\ 3DFX\ logo\ \(in\ HQ\)\ \[_8UvDRc_rdo\].mp4 pictures/animation3dfx%d.png # ( or jpg, bmp, etc)
$ ls pictures/ | wc -l
443

Congratulations ! Now you have 443 frames extracted from the video in the directory "pictures" , with a 1280x720 size. Of course, this is just the image size, not sure we can't find better definition. But I doubt the original spining logo was in 4k.
The final logo is about image 340.
The image in the first post is better quality than the ones I got with this method.

altarofmelektaus wrote on 2025-09-25, 11:38:

Anyone have this version in high quality, by chance? I could've swore I once saw it online (reverse image searching seems to be pretty much useless nowadays, go figure) but now it's pretty much lost media. What can be found are the versions with a different starburst/text render, but that's not what I'm after. If anyone would know, I'm sure this would be the place 🤣

I had this on my HDD.
It's higher res than your original picture, but it's only the text.
Maybe you could overlap it over your image(slightly zoomed-in to match perfectly), and then try another upscale with possibly even better and more acurate results.

L.E.
And also found this online in PNG format.
Text seems to be the same size; just has more "white" around it. Probably it's the original, and mine was just cropped.

FWIW, here's the new logo animation.
EDIT: Through a Windows game capture of Dgvoodoo2 output

And here's what I believe is the old logo animation.

EDIT: I know the Gamma is off, but I can't set it properly when capturing and I'm really tired now. Maybe I'll give it another go later.

Here's another attempt with better levels.

EDIT : A bit blown out, I think. For some reason, I can't eyeball it (not having a color managed workflow for video doesn't help).

nali wrote on Yesterday, 16:50:

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To build my Arduino thing, I used a good definition video I found.

First download the video.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Quote: "By default, yt-dlp tries to download the best available quality if you don't pass any options. "

$ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8UvDRc_rdo
$ mkdir pictures
$ ffmpeg -i The\ Classic\ 3DFX\ logo\ \(in\ HQ\)\ \[_8UvDRc_rdo\].mp4 pictures/animation3dfx%d.png # ( or jpg, bmp, etc)
$ ls pictures/ | wc -l
443

Congratulations ! Now you have 443 frames extracted from the video in the directory "pictures" , with a 1280x720 size. Of course, this is just the image size, not sure we can't find better definition. But I doubt the original spining logo was in 4k.
The final logo is about image 340.
The image in the first post is better quality than the ones I got with this method.

That's from a video capture of the logo animation 3dfxSpl2.dll from dosbox-2010-03-22-custom-glide.zip as rendered by an oldish version of NGlide being used by Glquake (through 3Dfx's minigl). I could not get the newer versions of NGlide to capture using Windows' game capture.

AFAIK, that 3dfxSpl2.dll only works with NGLide. I could not get it work with anything else. Maybe this will give someone an idea as to how to get better results than mine.