yup it was STB what hapend was they no longer sold gpu's to 3erd party's so the 3erd party was no longer supporting them
while never a 3dfx card owner, "always to expensive" I do remember these days quite well, and I remember buying my Riva 128ZX those where the days, long days with Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 and Need for Speed 2 SE
I always thought that 3Dfx's demise was all down to the fact that nVidia had 32-bit colour support in 3d with the TNT gen of cards. Whereas 3DFX didn't at that time. Thus they lost a mindshare/market share. At the time I remember I had an Orchid Righteous card then a friend got his TNT & I became envious. :3eyes:
everyone keeps forgetting the fact that 3dfx stuck with voodoo arch until it was basically unrecognizable (VSA-100) and never finished their next-gen arch (rampage) so voodoo 2 thru 5 where just "stop gaps" until rampage... aside from that, 3dfx never learned to make short cycle simple production vga chips... (like nvidia's 6 month schedule which they had and ATi until the other day basically) and if they did so, it was only to glue them together to make them go fast... hence... SLI route
The TNT wasnt fast enough to use 32bit (24bit really) colour though. I still had to use 16bit after switching from Voodoo2 to TNT. Very much a sidegrade rather than an upgrade.
I still have a Voodoo 2 at my computer store, on the wall! 3dfx will always have a special place in my heart I remember my high school years, my first card was a 3dfx voodoo 1 (4mb) card, then got voodoo2 sli cards, then moved over to riva TNT.
