Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools

The Voodoo cards had no right to look as good as they did for their time. Someone rebuilding one from scratch is exactly the kind of project HN was made for.

The project is cool, but the LLM generated blog bothers my brain.

My first video card.

Getting it working in linux in ~1999 was really not easy, especially for a teenager with no linux experience.

My networking card wasn't working either, so I had to run to a friend's house for dial-up internet access, searching for help on Altavista.

Very cool project. Way above my head, still!

I love the names and branding of that era. Technology today is far more advanced but it doesn’t have that same excitement for consumers.