The 3D landscape in 1996 favored S3 with around 50% of the market. Voodoo Graphics revolutionized personal computer graphics nearly overnight and rendered many other designs obsolete, including a vast swathe of 2D-only graphics producers. That card was followed by Diamond Multimedia's Monster 3D, the Canopus Pure3D, Colormaster Voodoomania, Quantum3D Obsidian, Miro Hiscore, Skywell Magic3D, among others. ![]() Orchid Technologies was first to market with the $299 Orchid Righteous 3D, a board noted for having mechanical relays that "clicked" when the chipset was in use. The cards were sold by a large number of companies. But by the second half of 1996, memory prices had dipped significantly which turned 3Dfx's attention to the consumer PC market.ģDfx's Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only add-in card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display. The company's first-gen Voodoo chipset powered arcade hits like San Francisco Rush, ICE Home Run Derby and Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey. ![]() Founded in San Jose, California in 1994 by a trio of former Silicon Graphics employees, 3Dfx got its start making hardware for arcade machines.
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