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| Village Tronic MP850 3dfx? | |
| Posted by: Timtheloon on 2026-07-15 10:54:54 Hello All. I recently bought myelf a Power Mac 6500/275 I had a spare sonnet so bumped it up to a G3 400Mhz 512kb cache I also have a village tronic MP850 graphics card which works wonderfully but when I look it up online some websites are calling it a 3dfx voodoo banshee but I cannot find any 3dfx drivers for it. Also, if i remember correctly when I bought it many many moons ago it was also sold to me has a mac 3dfx card. My question is, is it a 3dfx card is the powermac 6500 a suitable system for it and where can I get the 3dfx drivers? | |
| Posted by: Phipli on 2026-07-15 11:08:04 Drivers are available here : Village Tronic Graphics Drivers - Macintosh GardenDownload #1 Village Tronic Driver CD, including drivers for the following Graphics Cards: MacPicasso: 320/328/340/516/520/523/540/750/850 MacMagic and for the following Video-In Module: MacPaloma It also contains Demos and Utilities.
The high end Village Tronic cards were 3dfx Voodoo cards, but having not owned one I forget which one is which model. Hang on to it, they're getting harder to get. It should work well in the 6500 I'd expect 🙂 | |
| Posted by: chelseayr on 2026-07-15 11:11:10 just as a small footnote, MP850 is basically also MP750 as the two were identical except for differing vram size and you're not the only one asking as it would seem unfortunately Macintosh Garden Wanted List - Macintosh Gardenbut anyhow as for that card in a 6500 mm well I mean if you're willingly to bypass the apple video-in stuffs then yeah its probably a reasonable dedicated graphic card indeed (I only mention that because I need to note that you have to use the onboard graphic to be able to record/watch videos because the video is being overlaid onto the onboard monitor output .. you can't expect it to overlay onto a non-onboard output otherwise! you know..) [edit to phipli: haha hm thats weird in a funny way as I had tried MP850, MP750, banshee, 3dfx, villagetronic .. and there was no hit on any of these keywords .. oh well I'll leave my original post uneddited nevertheless] | |
| Posted by: Timtheloon on 2026-07-15 11:28:59 Cheers guys, so I have already downloaded them drivers, but there is still no mention of 3dfx and the games like Tomb Raider II don't see it has a 3dfx card | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2026-07-15 11:52:18Cheers guys, so I have already downloaded them drivers, but there is still no mention of 3dfx and the games like Tomb Raider II don't see it has a 3dfx cardHave you installed it? Have you restarted? Does the MP control panel see the card? The protocol is called "Glide", I'd expect to see that mentioned rather than 3dfx. Try F/A-18 Hornet Korea. I know that works with Glide, I've used it with my Voodoo 1. You have to turn it on in settings. F/A-18 KOREA 1.2 - Macintosh GardenAlthough F/A-18 Korea came out at the same time as Hornet 3.0, it stands apart from any of the other F/A-18 simulators. This is because It includes an advanced mission editor, which will provide an endless supply of scenarios to test your creativity and skills. Yet it also includes network play...
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Posted by: Phipli on 2026-07-15 11:57:36[edit to phipli: haha hm thats weird in a funny way as I had tried MP850, MP750, banshee, 3dfx, villagetronic .. and there was no hit on any of these keywords .. oh well I'll leave my original post uneddited nevertheless]I searched by brand and then read the download descriptions - I've been caught out before! | |
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