Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination

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From: Jason Ash
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 00:00

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Testme wrote:
> 
> Anthony Q. Bachler, BAS wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to tell you guys, but there is no such thing as a 3D card unless you
> > are running a holographic display.  The term 3D is an advertising ghimick.
> > All these cards can do is render a 3D image on a 2D display.  The image is
> > not really 3D.  It only contains some shading that makes it appear somewhat
> > 3D.
> > --
> >
> 
> Yo Belchboy
> 
> Knock, knock.... hello??? McFly??? Yeah and I hate to break this news to
> you,
> but your not really running around in a dungeon in Quake, Buildings in
> Duke, or
> Mines in Descent, it's just an illusion created by game engines, which
> arent really
> engines at all since they don't have pistons or cylinders, or produce
> carbon monoxide.
> 
> Slap!!!

Drown the offending non-technicals in a deluge of high-tech personal
computer jargon!!!  ;)
-- 
			Jason A.
->They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
->			General Creighton W. Adams
->Neo-Taoist-Techno-Pagan  I worship the holy Motherboard

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From: Jason Ash <Jaso...@glis.net>
Subject: Re: What is the best 3d graphics card/combination
Date: 1997/03/15
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