[TrazPFloyd]

hello,

I'm trying to get voodoo drivers on my Virtual PC 6.0 emulator software, if I understand correctly Virtual PC can be altered so it doesnt emulate as S3 Virge. I believe I seen someone speak of it on this forum, but the search function is not working on this forum

thanks,
travis

[voodoo]

If you supply the vehicle, I'll drive ya..









oh.. *that* kinda driver.

[blizzard]

Virtual PC stopped allowing Voodoo cards to be used back at about version 3. People thought that having Voodoo card support meant it would be a good game system, when all Connectix ever wanted from it was for it to be a business app.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by TrazPFloyd:
hello,

I'm trying to get voodoo drivers on my Virtual PC 6.0 emulator software, if I understand correctly Virtual PC can be altered so it doesnt emulate as S3 Virge. I believe I seen someone speak of it on this forum, but the search function is not working on this forum

It's not all it's cracked up to be.

VPC 3.0 could, if you had a Voodoo2 card (nothing earlier or later would work), pass Glide functions through it so that you could get 3-D acceleration on the PC side. The feature was dropped entirely in OSX, and may have been dropped in OS9 as early as 4.0. I don't know for sure.

This only ever worked with a specific brand of Voodoo2 card, which was the only Voodoo2 on the market for OS9 anyway. And the acceleration wasn't all it was cracked up to be, because even though individual frames looked very nice, it didn't actually help your framerate at all; the emulation was simply too slow.

Oh, and you still emulated an S3 Virge. The Voodoo2 card only worked in 3-D mode; it had to be paired with another video card for 2-D work. Any 2-D card would do for this, and so the S3 Virge emulation still worked.