October 7, 1996 · Peripheral
Orchid Righteous 3D (1996)
The first retail card built on the 3dfx Voodoo chip.
Needed a pass-through cable from your 2D card. It showed how much faster Glide games ran (Quake GLQuake, Tomb Raider) and began the Voodoo era a few weeks before Diamond's Monster 3D.
See 1996 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- October 7, 1996
- Kind
- Peripheral: Graphics card
- Maker or publisher
- Orchid Technology
- Platforms
- DOS, Windows
- Chip
- 3dfx Voodoo Graphics
- Memory
- 4 MB EDO
- Output
- 3D only, VGA pass-through cable
- Connection
- PCI add-on
- Works with
- DOS, Windows
Source: Wikipedia
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- 3dfx Voodoo Graphics (Diamond Monster 3D) (predecessor, 1996)
- Quake (enabled, 1996)
- Tomb Raider (enabled, 1996)
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