• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, Intel 810, SiS, VIA and Matrox MGA DRM drivers

    Those are some ancient cards! Can’t believe they’re supported this long.

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      I still have a Rage 128 hanging around as a ‘temporary head’ for installing headless servers. Many happy nights playing Thief: The Dark Project with it, and now it’s only good for rendering a TTY at a barely acceptable resolution. And soon, not even that. Goodbye, little e-waste :-(

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        I must be ancient then. I recognized, and I think used, all of those cards/chips.

        Some personally. Some at work. At work I used to maintain and MS-DOS / early Windows graphics program. I had to test the program’s compatibility with a stack of graphics cards.

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    so any remaining users have a few more years to get a new graphics card.

    Anyone running a Voodoo is doing so because they want to. Dropping support is bullshit.

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      Driver code is still there, you can add it back if you want, same with ide drivers and such, support was removed but code still exists, just add it and compile your own kernel, there are alot of tutorials in internet about it

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      Voodoo cards are worth money to the right people. They’re used in a bunch of coin-op arcade games.

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          why on earth do arcade machines need kernel updates? the feds gonna hack into the highscores lmfao