3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired

[phoronix]

Phoronix: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired

In clearing up the state of various X.Org packages that have been effectively unmaintained for years, an attempt is being made to better communicate the status of some "retired" X.Org packages that Linux distributions should work towards removing as they are no longer being maintained...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Retired-Packages-2023

[loganj]

i've just seen a movie on youtube with someone that made one of these cards to work on w10

[Weasel]

i've just seen a movie on youtube with someone that made one of these cards to work on w10

Ok but… why?

[boxie]

Ok but… why?

why not?!

nerds are gonna nerd

[ClosedSource]

This is sad. These are iconic devices. They should stay in the source tree as a tribute even if disabled in the default build.
People these days don't understand tech heritage.

[mbriar]

This is sad. These are iconic devices. They should stay in the source tree as a tribute even if disabled in the default build.
People these days don't understand tech heritage.

They will stay in the git history forever, but what is the point of keeping them in the main branch if they are unmaintained and not functional for years?

[stiiixy]

Who had a Banshee?! I liked mine

[Veerappan]

Who had a Banshee?! I liked mine

I had a Banshee.

And I still have a Voodoo 3 3000. I might still have the 2000 as well, but might've recycled that few years ago.

That said, I have used it in years, although it still functioned on windows 7 just fine.

[Etherman]

i've just seen a movie on youtube with someone that made one of these cards to work on w10

This driver is for using dedicated 3D cards like Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 for displaying 2d desktop graphics.
I remember using it briefly but I was let down by the too low resolution.

[henrik]

Hey! I wrote that Glide driver! :-)

That was a lot of fun. More of a "can it be done?" type of thing than really useful since it was so slow without any 2D acceleration. But it let me have two screens with the Voodoo driving the second screen which was cool.

Sad to see it go, but it's been irrelevant for forever by now so I'm not surprised.... :-)

-- Henrik