Voodoo 5 5500!

#1 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 - 03:18 68kMLA

So a local has been pruning his rather extensive stash of Mac hardware; amongst the various bits of systems and software I got from him, just picked up a Voodoo 5 5500. No manual, but has the drivers and the demo software in the box.

Can't wait to drop this in my Beige G3 and give Marathon 2 a whirl

#2 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 - 03:29 68kMLA

Score

#3 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 - 00:17 68kMLA

Marathon 2 has 3DFX support?

#4 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 - 05:12 68kMLA

Not positive, but it will definitely be faster than the stock Rage 128...

#5 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 - 05:16 68kMLA

Pretty sure Marathon 2 is all software rendered anyway, so it wouldn't matter.

#6 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 - 01:33 68kMLA

Exactly - remember, it was intended to be run on Quadra era machines. Not to mention that when it came out (1995), even the original Voodoo1 cards would have been absolutely bleeding edge - if they even existed. (Voodoo1 came out in '96, right?)

Aleph One might support 3DFX cards though....

#7 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 - 04:28 68kMLA

Get some beta 3dfx drivers for opengl and rock aleph one

#8 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 - 01:15 68kMLA

Gorgeous!

For many years this was the best possible card to run Diablo II on in a Mac, as you could turn on the anti-aliasing feature :-D