Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

I had a fair amount of shares of TDFX back in the day, rode it all the way to their bankruptcy. NVDA bought the scraps and left retail shareholders like me with nothing. In a different reality, if 3dfx could have survived to the AI-era...

Corrected title: My Childhood Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

86box is really fun, and the m4+ macs are great at running it. I've been working on a custom OS designed specifically for the pentium 2 core/isa (trying to write an high performance *nix for 1997-1999 for quake 1/2). 86box runs very faithfully to the real silicon p2s (and voodoo 3) I have without the nuisance of having to copy code over to it in development.

Emulated llama whipping, what an era we live in

But can it emulate having two voodoo II's and a desk fan pointed at it?

I love it! The great 2026 benchmark is a native Turok (I vividly remember that 30fps low poly iguana looking as real as Jurassic Park in my childhood), Unreal and Q3A.

It gives me chills when I see the 3dMark 2000 benchmark visuals. I thought it is pure magic when I first saw it. What was a time to be alive!.

I thought 86Box only emulated binaries, so I was a little confused on how it designates CPU speed and architecture. Good to know though...

Ah, those specs will run Need for Speed II smoothly!

Wait, if single core performance matters, could it be that the MacBook Neo could be a good machine for 86Box? I assume thermal throttling could be a limitation but in theory it should be as fast as an M3 for single core performance.

I vaguely remember running a PlayStation emulator (bleem?) on my Pentium III 1Ghz processor.

Once the Mac mini M8 is released, will we be able to emulate a Pentium III which runs PlayStation emulation?

Glide works, yeah, but check your 86Box dynarec setting first. I had Unreal crawling on an M2 until I realized I was still on the interpreter core.

I would be interested to see a performance comparison with qemu and softgpu (https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu).

Emulated Voodoo 3? Does that mean I can run games using Glide?

Computers got better, true

But those were much cooler than the ones today

Now I want to emulate my dual PIII-450 with an ATI Rage Fury 128 running Windows 2000.

But can it run Crysis? :-D

Quake party!!!!