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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

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  1. wk_end · · focus · HN ↗
    Tomb Raider (1996) ostensibly required a Pentium, and I remember (though memory may be faulty) the demo refusing to run on my 486. Does this FPGA 486 support the additional Pentium instructions?
    1. Zardoz84 · · focus · HN ↗
      I remember playing Star Fleet Academy demo on my 486DX5@133 and a Trident 3d SVGA card at slow motion in battles. The game requires a Pentium 75 or 90 and a DirectX accelerator.
      1. tsunamifury · · focus · HN ↗
        Wait wait. You’re one of the rare people to ever this odd period of 486 history. What kind of overclocker did you use?
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