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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #135 - 15.04.05 at 14:51:02

Down to 195 I'm keeping now but need to find 10-20 more to go Sad

Ones I'm considering letting go-

Maxigamer Voodoo 2 (new boxed)
Trust Banshee PCI (new boxed, UK)
<gone> Procomp Voodoo II (boxed, Germany)
<gone> Game Wizard SLI for Mac (boxed)
<gone> G-Links unique Voodoo II for I-mac (boxed)
<stay> Modular Tech Voodoo Graphics (boxed, UK)
Innovision Banshee (boxed new, UK)
Innovision Voodoo II (boxed, Germany)
Miro Hiscore Voodoo I (Boxed, UK)
Miro Hiscore Voodoo II (Boxed, Germany)
Jaton Voodoo II (new boxed)
<gone> Dragon 3000 Banshee (new boxed)
<stay> Dragon 4000 Voodoo II (boxed, Germany)
Diamond Fusion AGP 16 MB SGRAM (boxed)

<stay> Wicked3d Vengance Banshee PCI with disk
Biostar Voodoo Graphics (mailed from Taiwan!)
<gone> ProVideo PV830 (Dark Blue PCB/110 mhz ram)
<gone> Powercolor Voodoo II

Hard choices my friends, very hard choices.

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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #136 - 15.04.05 at 18:32:55 always the luck...
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #137 - 16.04.05 at 01:09:22 heh it's more co-incidence than Luck Gary's right lett'n loose of a few cards is needed he does need the livin space to live. Anyway Gary you're still do'n a great thing with your collection we all have learned alot also Thanx to you mate.
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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #138 - 16.04.05 at 03:00:19

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Gary's right lett'n loose of a few cards is needed he does need the livin space to live.

Space really isn't this issue- I could always put some up in the attic! The problem is there are too many and it's hard to see a tree in the midst of a forest.

I'd rather have smaller number of unique cards then a great number of cards in general.

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Reply #139 - 16.04.05 at 10:09:29

Yeah you got a point there haha you do have heaps, and it is gett'n hard to see which ones are there or not, the forrest keeps on grow'n .

time to chop doown a few trees then. just keep the most worthy ones and let go of the most common ones I guess.

Though I still think there is alot more we don't know of yet, there's gotta be more wierder stuff out there.

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #140 - 17.04.05 at 22:33:31 189 cards now, 13 more items uploaded to- http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/album41 TM30 and I are going to pass each other soon.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #141 - 17.04.05 at 23:37:59 you mean in count of cards or what? why do you sell them? do you have them in doubles or do you have no more room for it? and most of the cards you'll trade are not common... such as the Viewtop Voodoo Banshee...
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #142 - 17.04.05 at 23:56:06 Quote: Space really isn't this issue- I could always put some up in the attic! The problem is there are too many and it's hard to see a tree in the midst of a forest. I'd rather have smaller number of unique cards then a great number of cards in general. @tm30: i guess this is the answer
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #143 - 18.04.05 at 00:37:13 hmm than put it all on the wall, sortet by kind of GPU... and everything is in order. or some nice showcases... c'mon this is really no problem
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Reply #144 - 23.04.05 at 23:32:57

No luck this time around, just plain hard research!

Ever since I found out 3dfx boards were used in some arcade applications I have been researching into this area to find out what machines used their chips. You are looking at a Voodoo 3 board used in a golf game!

The company was using production Voodoo 3 boards but when 3dfx closed their doors and the PCI board supply dried up they were forced to make their own Voodoo 3 boards if they wished to continue selling machines and have spares on hand.

The chip is dated mid 2000, the board is dated 2702!

Yes, 3dfx Voodoo 3's were still being made mid-year in 2002. What is odd is the board has no bios chip, I think the games motherboard handles the functions that the cards bios would normally handle. I tried running in on a PC and it does show up as a 3dfx card on a PCI bus scan and windows also sees it but the hardware conflicts with several items in the PC. I think the card is setup for one set of interrupts which isn't a problem for one locked dedicated platform but is an issue for PC hardware which needs to share resources and be more flexible.

I lucked out after e-mailing several dozen arcade owners who had kits for sale, this one was from spares owned by a company in Canada. The PCB is a nice dark blue color, the bottom picture is much closer to being correct.

I removed the heatsink to get a picture of the bare chip and could not get a decent picture today with the correct color and lighting.

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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #145 - 23.04.05 at 23:44:19 great stuff, gary!
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #146 - 23.04.05 at 23:47:28 WHOA! Nice! 8) Which Golf arcade was it from @Gdonovan? ??? Heh, if I got it I'd prolly get a BIOS off an old MB - solder it and flash the card... ...but it's just cos' I'm a moddin' phreak!
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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #147 - 24.04.05 at 00:06:33

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Which Golf arcade was it from @Gdonovan? ???

Heh, I knew that question was going to come up Wink

See these "Golden Tee Fore" auctions-

This auction has normal 3000-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6171602126

This auction has the IT board-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6172324248

Another 3000-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6172919551

Kit with a 2000-

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=13718&item=6173376250

Most of the kits seem to come with either the later 2000 or 3000 PCI boards from 3dfx, I have seen one with a Powercolor PCI board too. I warn you the kits go for big bucks and the arcade operators don't part with anything that make them money lightly.

Most of the kits will clear $500-$1200 on ebay depending on what version is being sold.

I considered trying a chip but the blue IT boards are seen very rare with these kits, I think they were spares only... and considering the board works fine in a game I'm going to leave it be. Who knows, adding a bios chip might not even work since the game doesn't require one, the traces might not even be there or correct.

Welcome to a whole new aspect of 3dfx collecting Grin

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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #148 - 25.04.05 at 22:15:26

This card has been returned to function.

The early PCB has a problem running at the native 66 mhz AGP bus speed but by changing the divider from 1/1 to 2/3 in the computers bios it has no problem running at 44 mhz bus. I'm told it has something to do with some of the trace lengths in the PCB screwing up the timings. (I think I remember that right)

With the regular drivers it has no problem running in single chip, dual chip and 2x AA mode, when running in 4x AA mode it has some screen flashing issues.

I'm very happy it works at all =)

Dual head operation is not available, I'm told unique drivers are required.

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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #149 - 25.04.05 at 22:41:59 yeah good job gary i hope someday my 4200 comes also back to life what about the dual monitor feature ? no signal or no option to enable it in the driver ?
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