For one day, April fools is a bitch. It would be awesome if this little trick brought up a real discussion about bringing back a Voodoo series of cards.

http://www.geforce.com/#/News/articles/voodoo-revived

(Full image of page for archive purposes)
http://www.abload.de/thumb/fullcaf1.jpg

Here is the background on the page if anyone is interested. (fairly high resolution at 2220x1648)
http://www.abload.de/thumb/background-voodoo7lin.jpg

Ya, I noticed 3dfx.com url was already active days ago; probably they're preparing this april fools from then ;)

3dfx ads:

http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/headless-ad.png

http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/microwave-ad.png

(I was searching for this one in HR by years ;))
http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/toilet-ad.png

it's funny even, at one hand they say the card would have 233 VSA-100 chips, and on the other hand "we made no alterations to the chips"

I'd like to see the card built for reals. 12 pci-express cards, each card the length of a V5 6000 and loaded with chips :)
And that they would also revive their secretive mobo build, with 12 pci-e slots to accomodate the cards, and to make it complete, revive; together with Quantum3D, the Quicksilver system line with this being the ultimate setup :)

They would make millions...nVidia would be stupid not to :)

I'm honored, Gary Tarolli sent me the link this morning while I was at work!

congratulation !


simply amazing....

The site 3dfx.com/geforce.com is still showing the joke, while things are changed a bit:

-Background (Voodoo5 face wallpaper) is turned into a classic nVIDIA background

-The 3dfx logo is disappeared; now replaced by the GeForce logo

-The article "Introducing the 3dfx Voodoo 590" doesn't lead the page anymore, although still present together with 3dfx ads article.

The news about the fake Voodoo 590 was edited a bit.

They cut the last parts ( ::)), while added a link to a video on YT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZ39nQ_k90

goriath wrote on 01.04.11 at 15:05:25:

Ya, I noticed 3dfx.com url was already active days ago; probably they're preparing this april fools from then ;) 3dfx ads: http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/headless-ad.png http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/microwave-ad.png (I was searching for this one in HR by years ;)) http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/toilet-ad.png

Intersting find, goriath.   ;)  How were you able to find the images on the site?  And how did you know the site was active a few days before the article?   :)

I tried visiting www.3dfx.com but it re-directs me to www.geforce.com.

When I try to visit the site with sub-directories, I get a 'Directory Listing Denied' error.   :(

What also is on the 3dfx website?  What else did NVIDIA upload?  Or another interesting question, what else remains?

ania3Dfx wrote on 06.04.11 at 12:26:15:

goriath wrote on 01.04.11 at 15:05:25: Ya, I noticed 3dfx.com url was already active days ago; probably they're preparing this april fools from then ;) 3dfx ads: http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/headless-ad.png http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/microwave-ad.png (I was searching for this one in HR by years ;)) http://www.3dfx.com/Active/en_US/shared/images/articles/3dfx/toilet-ad.png Intersting find, goriath.   ;)  How were you able to find the images on the site?  And how did you know the site was active a few days before the article?   :) I tried visiting www.3dfx.com but it re-directs me to www.geforce.com. When I try to visit the site with sub-directories, I get a 'Directory Listing Denied' error.   :( What also is on the 3dfx website?  What else did NVIDIA upload?  Or another interesting question, what else remains?

On 1 April 2001, 3dfx.com site was showing like that:

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/4949/3dfxcomnews.jpg

As you can see, it was reactived in order to prepare the joke;) In News section there was the article "Introducing the 3dfx Voodoo 590", while there was an 3dfx ads.

Now the page has changed, and display what the geforce.com site display too. But you can still find the 3dfx asd.

I noticed that something was moving because sometimes I check the old 3dfx url...'cause of nostalgia I think :P