As I understand it VPC will make use of a Voodoo2 breaking the 4mb
ceiling for vram which I see as the major drawback of pc emulation.
I'll throw a couple of bucks at it to find out, last local V2 on
ebay
went for $15, I was at work and missed it. Worst case, I have
another
old video card for yet another old mac or pc.
I'm not too sure who the original poster of the above text is, but with the Voodoo 1/2 cards, they do not contribute to the size of an emulated or real video card's RAM. Essentially they are 3D graphic coprocessors that only create 3D graphics, overlaying the result on the 2D video card's signal.
There was one other card similar to this made by Matrox called M3D, which was powered by a PowerVR chip. This chip was the ancestor of the graphics chip used in the Sega Dreamcast. The M3D didn't require a passthrough cable from the card to the 2D video card either, communicating through the PCI bus instead.
Nowadays the Voodoo 1/2 cards (at least on the PC side) are getting a little long in the tooth. Most 2D/3D PC cards will run faster for not much money.
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