DOSBox is arguably the best PC-with-DOS emulator available today. It's great for playing older 1980s and early 1990s PC games. But some later 1990s titles exist in a sort of grey area—too complex for ...

Having a retro PC is awesome, because it lets you experience classic games as they were intended to be, on the original hardware. Maintaining one is a pain, though; beyond all the issues with using 25 ...

I'm old enough to remember the hype of 3Dfx (capitalized D made the difference as they changed to 3dfx years later) and the original Voodoo 1. Man... it was an absolute game-changer. Super smooth ...

There are still quite a few games out there that either didn't have a D3D renderer, or it performed many times worse than the Glide renderer. I have tried a number of Glide wrappers (mostly with ...

In a nutshell: The 3dfx Interactive brand is long gone, but its legacy lives on through custom redesigns like the VoodooX, which pay homage to the legendary PC hardware product line. The creator of ...

Usually when writing emulation software for a system like the Game Boy, one makes sure to take as many shortcuts as possible in order to reduce the resources required for the emulation. This has ...

Imagine for a moment that you could play Nintendo 64 games on your high-end PC. What would Super Mario 64 look like running under a Pentium 400mhz PC equipped with 64MBs of RAM and a 3DFX Voodoo 2 ...

Were you around for the heyday of Windows 98? PC gamers were slow to adopt Windows 95 because the conventional game design paradigm of talking directly to the hardware was a big no-no in the new ...