The VoodooX 3Dfx project tries to revive the legend of early 3D graphics cards for PC

In brief: Oscar Barea, a 3Dfx enthusiast, is trying to make Voodoo cards reach a "new hardware level." Using VSA-100 chips collected through online auctions, Barea and his collaborators are still working to "innovate" on the corpse of the first 3D graphics hardware company.

3Dfx Interactive is a brand that is long gone but not forgotten. It's a name known by many PC enthusiasts who experienced and survived the crazy hardware innovations of the 1990s that changed PC gaming forever. Oscar Barea is a Voodoo doctor (pun intended) who decided to resurrect the brand in his own way. Barea is trying to use the defunct company's graphics technology to assemble a working video card that can run games on a barebone PC setup.

Since 2022, Barea has shared his progress with the "VoodooX 3Dfx project" on X (formerly Twitter). The project aims to design, develop, and assemble a ...