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Date:      Thu, 14 May 1998 17:56:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Cc:        Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ANNOUNCE: 3Dfx Glide port beta test
Message-ID:  <199805142156.RAA24992@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980514170037.A18554@ct.picker.com>

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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Randall Hopper wrote:

> Kevin Day:
>  |I've just signed a license to distribute a FreeBSD native port of
>  |Glide(3DFx's library for their Voodoo cards).
> 
> Hey, Cool!  Thanks!
> 
>  |A port of the 3Dfx glide library will be available within 2-3 weeks for beta
>  |testing. If there is anyone interested in beta testing this (preferably any
>  |3dfx developers who already have have a development kit), or anyone with a
>  |voodoo or voodoo2 card who can just run a quick test, please e-mail me.
>  |Include your e-mail, what kind of card(s) you have, and what kind of help
>  |you can provide. :)
> 
> Have Canopus Pure 3D (4Meg, Voodoo Graphics) here to test on.  Happy to run
> any tests you need.  Haven't signed any 3dfx NDAs, so I could help only
> with binary dists, and any source/exec that'll build/link to your
> libglide.so.
> 
> (Was going to just reply personally, but I figured we need to tack a few
> articles on this thread to increase the likelyhood of 3dfx-equipped FreeBSD
> folks seeing it in their mail folders.  I almost missed it myself :-)

I am planning on ordering the canopus voodoo2 based card next week, and
will be happy to run some tests once I have it.  I am running 2.2.5, so I
may not qualify.

Jamie Bowden

Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net


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