felixding Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 i want to play Final Fantasy 7 again so i need to buy a second-hand voodoo1/2, but since i have to connect my 915g on-board graphics card to voodoo1/2 with a cable, then connect the voodoo card with the monitor, i'm not sure whether OSX can still run under this situation, and further more, what about all the features such as QE/CI/OGL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam0r Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 How are you going to connect the onboard graphics to the voodoo? Afaik the old voodoo cards needed an internal cable to connect to a feature 'port' on the card. They dont exist on newer cards, and I really dont think they exist on any onboard cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixding Posted October 23, 2005 Author Share Posted October 23, 2005 a voodoo card has two ports, one for display, one for another graphics card. you should use a external cable to connect these 2 cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 I've just found a dusty old creative CT6670, is this the kind of thing you mean? I can hook it up & check it out if you like.. (providing it works, that is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 You can link Voodoo cards? Is this a feature specific to voodoo? *I've never heard of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Before your time, young man <_>Before 3d acceleration was integrated into graphics cards, you had a separate 3d accelerator that passed its signals through the 2d graphics card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 Before your time, young man Before 3d acceleration was integrated into graphics cards, you had a separate 3d accelerator that passed its signals through the 2d graphics card. Yeah, my parents still have a Diamond 4MB Voodoo in kombination with a 4MB S3 VGA Card running on a P2@266 Mhz (it's my old PC). 2 cards to get 8MB VGA RAM an a litlle bit 3D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 24, 2005 Share Posted October 24, 2005 I got one of those voodoo cards, but I don't use any more, I don't see how Mac OS X can use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Before your time, young man Woah, I take that as an insult! Anyways, Voodoo was the best producer of it's time (and their cards still actually compete with some of todays!) so, did the Voodoo 4 (or even 5, not sure if they released a 5th) support this? I mean that card was pretty crazy, but to have one working alongside integrated graphics would be insane. Could someone clear this up? *I've become hooked on this, lol...I want to learn a bit about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixding Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 Before your time, young man Before 3d acceleration was integrated into graphics cards, you had a separate 3d accelerator that passed its signals through the 2d graphics card. i'll be very appreciated if you can try this. btw: i had a voodoo card in the late 1990s, and gave it to a friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 Ok I'll stick it in there & see what comes out as soon as I've sobered up.. I remember when 3d acceleration first arrived.. I was working with VRML (remember that?) & I had friends who worked in 3d studio, so we tried out vooodoo & the first s3 virge cards.. the acceleration for those purposes was so weak as to be pointless.. they probably made wolfenstein run smoother, but that was irrelevant in our production environments.. Anyhow.. I'll be back.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixding Posted October 29, 2005 Author Share Posted October 29, 2005 hi Hagar: have you tried voodoo card for me? i'm waiting for your reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted October 30, 2005 Share Posted October 30, 2005 Really sorry, I can't find the pass-through lead :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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