[FUBAR-BDHR]

Downloaded the FS2 demo 12/23/99.  Guessing I bought FS2 as an Xmas present for myself. 

Just checked my email archives and found my PXO registration dated 01/30/00 at 7:25 PM

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I downloaded FreeSpace 2 from BitTorrent at around the time FS2_Open 3.6.7 was released. I joined HLP last year, just in time to post a Christmas smiley tree, which I was very proud of.

[pecenipicek]

November 22, 2004, 10:16:54 AM

Got here through spacebattles and someone... i forgot who. lurked/minorly flamed at the time, took up ts 3.2, did my first few models(which i cringe at when looking), got in an argument with karajorma about my fredding skills (heh) and so on. left after half a year or so and got back some time last year, found out about TAP, joined it, saw TAP die once more, became leader of TAP on december last year and 9 months later i still cant understand why is it that the latest iteration of the team made the most work on the mod in the last 6 or so years it was in the making.

i'll be 19 in december. yay. oldzorz am i not yet.

[Stormkeeper]

Only been here a year and 3 months, but some how seems longer.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Only been here a year and 3 months, but some how seems longer.

It does, doesn't it? I feel as if I've been here for a decade already...

November 22, 2004, 10:16:54 AM

Wow. I've been playing FreeSpace 2 for four years.

[Hellstryker]

Been here 2.5 years IIRC, though the first year was basicly lurking...

[pecenipicek]

November 22, 2004, 10:16:54 AM

Wow. I've been playing FreeSpace 2 for four years.

i've been playing it since 1999(first the demo, then when i found the game in a gameshop nearby, the full version). got my voodoo2 just for it XD

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Voodoo? Is that Glide or OpenGL?

[Colonol Dekker]

Both wasn't it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

... ... ... ...

Direct3D?

[Stormkeeper]

... Its ... a graphics card.

[Colonol Dekker]

I used to get all three options in the Half-Life 1 video settings i had a voodoo 3 3000 AGP.

[Wobble73]

But Glide was exclusive to 3dfx cards (Voodoo's etc.)

I've now been here for 2 yrs and 5 months already! 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

But Glide was exclusive to 3dfx cards (Voodoo's etc.)

My point exactly. I've never seen 3dfx Glide in person before, but I heard that it looked much better than any other graphics API, even Direct3D.

[Colonol Dekker]

I never noticed. Back then i wanted speed over graphics and played through Half:-life all the way in 320x240.

[pecenipicek]

Glide is a reduced OpenGL. through some driver hackage, i somehow managed to make even warcraft3 to work on voodoo2...

Glide was the fastest api, but it was more like a hackjob than a full-on graphics api.

also, voodoo's were excelling in OGL pretty much most of the time. why do you think nvidia has had and always will have superior OGL performance to any ati card?

(hint: they bought 3dfx and most of their staff went on to nvidia's engineering staff, also, SLI was first seen on the Voodoo cards)

[Hellstryker]

SLI on voodoo cards? 

[Wobble73]

SLI on voodoo cards? 

Yep, my first 3d graphics card was actually a graphics accelerator card, (Righteous Orchid) that was sort of in SLI with my 2d graphics card, but you could use a Voodoo3 graphics card and use the accelerator card to make a 16mb Voodoo into a 32mb Voodoo! 

[Colonol Dekker]

Rightous orchid. . Whoa flashback to 96.

[pecenipicek]

SLI on voodoo cards? 

yes. SLI originated on Voodoo cards, it was 3dfx's invention.

Voodoo cards we're basically 3D accelerators only and needed a 2d card too. you basically connected your 2d card to your voodoo with a normal vga cable, and you connected two PCI voodoo's with a sli connector (similar to nvidia's implementation, but it was much much more rigid in its... well, placement.

my voodoo2 had 8 megs of ram with two texture processing units, 4 megs per each one. twas one of the first cards to support multitexturing iirc.