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A comment on Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan. Parent comment

Re:Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing E... by jackfraser on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:04PM (#19464488)
Glide, man, such a great era for PC gaming if you had the right equipment.

I'll never forgive the computer store guy when I was 14 who pushed me to buy the $40 cheaper S3 Trio3D instead of the Voodoo. Instead of something useful, I ended up with a glorified paperweight that only worked well for Direct3D. Guess how many games back then bothered to use that?

I think I got Quake 1 with some shitty hacked MiniGL driver working _once_.

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Re:Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing E... by leonroy on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:09AM (#19475658)
Heheh, I ended up in the same boat. Enamoured with tile based rendering (and the lower price) I bought the PowerVR based Apocalypse 3dx which also had a shortage of supported titles.

All my school friends had 3dfx cards. Didn’t get to do 3D gaming until I bought a Radeon 8500 many years later!

Still have my 3dx actually...it was a very interesting card:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series1_(NEC)

https://videocardz.net/videologic-apocalypse-3dx-4mb/

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