Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:21:39 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980104141513.2126A-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199801042018.VAA14132@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > The performance of Voodoo is lousy. It can't handle a single 3D operation > (in a window). Voodoo rush can handle lots. Therefor the rush has much better > performace. :-) :-) Quake isn't the ONLY thing you can use 3D accelerators > for, ya know. Loosing a little fps in fullscreen can easilly be worth it if > you gain it back elsewhere (VRLM, etc). Well, since the majority of feedback wrt voodoo, etc., is coming NOT from 3D programmers but from hard-core gamers, I think you can understand my skewed exposre to the chips :) If you have done your homework, I caertainly belive you over my "sources". > Not that that has any real support under XFree86, though. :-( > Anyone know if there are any plans to build in openGL or something, > in XFree86? Personally I want something like X11 with OpenGL support and > "setenv AUDIO" support. There are a few fledgling projects, but nothing usable. I have used GLUT and XI Grpahics OpenGL w/ Accelerated X, but it has no accelerated harware support. They said they plan to accelerate Voodoo, Fire GL, and possibly Oxygen stuff. I don't think they are going to have anything for at least a few months though. > > Once Bill Gates has FreeBSD on his PC I'll forgive you for having win95 on > > yours! > Like JHK hasn't proven his loyalty to FreeBSD enough? And Microsoft ran/runs > FreeBSD on some of their webservers or something, IIRC. That was a joke! That is very cool to see MS using FreeBSD. Where did you hear that? Kevin
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