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The Beige Years

3dfxFrom GLQuake to Nvidia, in Its Own Filings

3dfx's own merger filing said it would likely lose customers who competed with STB, yet the board signed anyway.

How the Voodoo card's maker went from GLQuake to selling its name and its patents to Nvidia.

Subject
3dfx Interactive, 1994
Chapters
7
Sources
8
Credits
11
Corrections
0

Sources

8
  • Article6
  • Interview1
  • Encyclopedia1

Numbered in the order the description lists them. Read dates are when the page was consulted; the live page may have changed since.

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Image & music credits

11
  • CC BY-SA 3.04
  • CC BY-SA 4.02
  • GNU FDL 1.21
  • CC BY-SA 2.51
  • CC BY-SA 2.01
  • License unknown1
  • CC BY 3.0 US1

10 photos, 1 music track, from the hosts linked below. Each file name links to the file's page, which carries the full license terms.

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1 Photo Three-isa-audio-cards (cropped) Media Vision Pro Audio.jpg Pratyeka CC BY-SA 4.0
2 Photo SGI-onyx.jpg Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island CC BY-SA 4.0
3 Photo Stbriva128.jpg unknown author CC BY-SA 3.0
4 Photo Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Rev C.jpg Gona.eu CC BY-SA 3.0
5 Photo KL Diamond Monster3D Voodoo 1.jpg Konstantin Lanzet GNU FDL 1.2
6 Photo 3dfxvoodoo1diamond.jpg User:Bloodshedder CC BY-SA 2.5
7 Photo Voodoo graphics card.jpg Hades2k CC BY-SA 2.0
8 Photo DiamondViperV770.JPG Swaaye at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
9 Photo Orchid Righteous 3D (back).png Trio3D CC BY-SA 3.0
10 Photo scott-sellers.jpeg supplied by the user License unknown
11 Music Heart of Nowhere (MacLeod, Kevin) (ISRC USUAN1400045).oga Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC BY 3.0 US

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