20 years later, the wait is finally over. Our team will discuss new hardware, goals for the next twelve months, and many exciting announcements this Thursday! #3dfx pic.twitter.com/Uq1Mu7G2Tw
— 3dfx Interactive (@3dfxofficial) August 3, 2021
According to the tweet above, posted August 3, 3dfx Interactive is making a comeback. The company made many graphics cards for gamers in the old days using the 3dfx Glide API. Now everything uses OpenGL, but they can adapt. If they can make good powerful cards and compete with Nvidia and ATI, this will be very good for the graphics card market. More competition is always a good thing these days. Having just two companies making graphics cards is stifling. My first true graphics card was a 3dfx Voodoo 2 card, this ran Quake 2 quite well. 2 cards could be linked together in SLI and process graphics as one unit. This was quite revolutionary for 1998. Games meant for Voodoo cards can be run these days though with a wrapper to convert Glide API calls to OpenGL. Hopefully, they will support Linux with good drivers, unlike Nvidia, which only provide binary blobs. That is non-free software. This taints the kernel when installed, but it is better than the default Nvidia driver for Linux that does not even work.
Having open-source drivers for Linux would be great.