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Re: 3dfx logo = Glide Support? Poll

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From: Roger Christie
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:00
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Reggie wrote:
> 
> yeah
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 19:35:49 -0400, "navyg8r"
> <nav...@removethispartearthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >simple yes or no question:
> >
> >if you see a 3dfx logo on the box of that awesome computer game you are
> >going to buy, you expect that game to have native 3dfx support (Glide) and
> >thus, use your voodoo 1/2/SLI or banshee card to its full potential.
> >
> >yes or no?
> >

No. It wasn't rocket sciene to figure out a year ago that the
logos would go on anything that supported the 3dfx in any form
whatsoever, whether its glide or d3d.

The people you have an issue with are the individual 
publishers of the games, but I don't think they're gonna
pay the slightest attention.
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From: Roger Christie <rchr...@spinach.xylogics.com>
Subject: Re: 3dfx logo = Glide Support? Poll
Date: 1998/10/01
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