--- title: The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA | daily.dev description: A developer has implemented the 3DFX Voodoo 1 GPU in SpinalHDL for FPGAs, recreating the classic mid-90s 3D graphics chipset in programmable hardware. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga-kmuh9wp9h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA | daily.dev og:description: A developer has implemented the 3DFX Voodoo 1 GPU in SpinalHDL for FPGAs, recreating the classic mid-90s 3D graphics chipset in programmable hardware. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga-kmuh9wp9h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kmuh9WP9h.png og:image:alt: The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The 3DFX Voodoo Lives Again In An FPGA **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer has implemented the 3DFX Voodoo 1 GPU in SpinalHDL for FPGAs, recreating the classic mid-90s 3D graphics chipset in programmable hardware. The project covers the Voodoo's fixed-function architecture, the challenges of implementing dedicated hardware graphics pipelines on FPGAs including bugs and timing issues, and is available as an open source GitHub repository. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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