I managed to snag my buddy’s old 4MB 3dfx Voodoo 1 to pair with the one I already had with the VGA pass through cable, an early form of multi-GPU.
In just a few years we had Quake 2 (1997) to Half-life (1998), Thief: The Dark Project and Quake 3 Arena/Unreal Tournament (1999). The year 2000 would see Dues Ex, The Sims, Diablo II, Perfect Dark, Final Fantasy IX, and Jet Set Radio... Not to mention Spyro, Red Alert 2, Paper Mario, Majora's Mask, Escape from Monkey Isand, Hitman 47...
So much amazing history in such a short period of time (let's not mention popular cinema...)
I miss those days. I went from a P133 with 72mb RAM (bought a load of RAM cheap in '98) to a P3 500 with a TNT2 Ultra and 128mb RAM in 1999. Technology progressed at an insane rate.
Edit, I had a K6-2 500MHz in one machine around that kind of time too. Wasn't as good as the P3 personally though but was cheap and reasonable. Started me off down the path of using AMD CPUs in my builds (Duron, Athlon, Sempron) until I started moving away to Mac laptops predominantly (which coincided with finishing university and writing software for a living)!.
IIRC the Voodoo 1 didn't have 2D capability so the pass through was to let your 2D handle that drawing.
Sounded like this was 2x Voodoo 1s stacked together. I probably need more coffee this morning!
This is always good policy.
* https://www.anandtech.com/show/578
(Never bothered to throw it out.)