08-06-2011, 04:33 PM
Quote:I still remember the first time I saw Tomb Raider running on the original 3DFX Voodoo card on a 21" CRT monitor, and it absolutely blew me away. So much so I splashed a significant amount of cash (and invoked my Apricot staff discount) on my first PC.
Excellent.
I'd owned a PC for a few years in the late 80's, this was just an 8086 clone, getting a more up-to-date one around 91 (CGA initially, but moving to EGA later on). IIRC it was a 286 built by a company in Redditch (might have been Tulip computers ?). Luckily Civilization came out after I'd left college, so didn't do any damage on the grades. Wolfenstein passed me by, but then came Doom and so history was written.
HL1 appeared whilst I was coming to the end of another lengthy period of studying. which almost proved to be catastrophic.
OpenGL, 3dfx and voodoo rush cards were a revelation for 3d graphics.