3dfx Voodoo Graphics Gets Windows XP x64 Support

ryszards writes, "GlideXP author Ryan 'Colourless' Nunn has turned his insanity up a notch with a driver that allows running the 32-bit NT Glide .dlls for a Voodoo Graphics board on Windows XP x64. Already supporting Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo 2 on 32-bit Windows XP, adding XP x64 to the mix lets even more folks reminisce about the good old early days of consumer 3D acceleration hardware. Any excuse to fire up GLQuake one more time!"

Re:new driver

[Anonymous Coward]

You're a partial faggot. Salesman.

Re:Speaking of Glide

[CowboyBob500]

Don't know about Montezuma's Return, but I often get a serious case of Montezuma's Revenge after visiting my local Mexican restaurant and I'm not a fan...

Bob

SLI

[pbjones]

I hope it supports using SLI, I still have at least 2 of these gems.

GLQuake?

[twazzock]

GLQuake still runs fine on my shiny new nVidia, and at crazy resolutions and frame rates :) OpenGL written applications have a tendancy to work forever anyway, (unlike a certain other API we all know *cough* DirectX *cough*) at least graphically.
There's got to be a better game example for this.

I hope my old Voodoo hasn't been thrown out. Like to see it in action ;)

Re:Security issues

[Anonymous Coward]

Two services, both of which are running as privileged users, which directly map memory and IO space to a user-space process without any significant checks being done on what is asking for access or what it's asking for access to in a common driver running under a networked OS.

Dude, it's even worse than that! Did you know that the Windows kernel talks directly to the CPU? They haven't even attempted to put an abstraction layer between them!

And the situation is no better under Linux either. Users of Intel Macs are alright as long as they are careful to run only PPC code. In that case they are protected by Rosetta which recognises evil instructions and replaces them with NOPs before they do any damage.