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Velocity Drivers has a website

The Windows 98 driver project has outgrown its README, so it now has its own home: velocitydrivers.org.

Velocity9x has come a long way since the first S3 Virge Direct3D test in August. It now does Direct3D, OpenGL, Glide and ATI's 3DCIF on cards from a 1997 Rage IIC through to an Intel HD 4600 and some GCN Radeons, and 0.48.0 is out. VelocityNT, the Windows 2000/XP version, is also in development, starting on the same S3 Trio64 that Velocity9x started on.

The site has:

  • A hardware database where you can search by card name or PCI ID (or just paste the ID from Device Manager) and see exactly what has been tested on it
  • Games and benchmarks with the frame rates people have actually measured
  • Downloads straight from the GitHub releases, plus docs and some videos
  • The tools that came out of the project: the V9x Remote Agent (which lets AI drive a Windows 9x machine, MCP server included) and the V9 Retro Controller

It's done in a Windows 98 style, of course, with a dark mode for 2026.

Like everything else on this project, Claude did most of the work. I had to ask it to make it look less modern, which is probably a first.

If you have a card that isn't supported yet, the easiest way to help is to lend me the machine through remote help for a while. A lot of the cards in the database got working that way.


Velocity Drivers: open-source drivers for classic Windows

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