Re: 3dfx logo = Glide Support? Poll

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From: Alan Third
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <6v3if2$4e8$1...@xenon.inbe.net>, Kris Vanhecke <kris.vanhecke@v
illage.uunet.be> writes
>>>3Dfx support is the best right now. Glide is just so much faster than D3D,
>>>and that is what makes it so popular. D3D and OpenGL don't suck, they just
>>>are substandard when compared to the power of glide.
>>Thats because glide is written for only one make of card. If glide had
>>to support hundreds of different cards it would probably be just as slow
>>as D3D.
>
>
>Hence DIRECT3D and 3Dfx Glide : )
>You're clutching at straws.
>
Well, I think that every game should be written from the ground up for
ATI Rage Pro graphics cards, that way I get to play games as they are
meant to be and much faster than anyone else.
-- 
Alan "Aldo" Third
aldo@draco-corp(Stick this up your... elbow?).demon.co.uk 
alan....@strath.clyde.ac.uk (remove the river)

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From: Alan Third <Al...@draco-pants.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 3dfx logo = Glide Support? Poll
Date: 1998/10/03
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