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Date:      Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:24:48 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Something to show off...?
Message-ID:  <199902061824.TAA01952@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902060529290.368-100000@thelab.hub.org> from The Hermit Hacker at "Feb 6, 99 05:30:56 am"

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As The Hermit Hacker wrote...
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> > > Can someone suggest an app or demo that I can run, under FreeBSD, to "wow"
> > > ppl?  I got this nice video card, and I frankly don't know what to do with
> > > it :(  Its a 3D/video acceleration card that is supported by XFree86, and
> > > that quite a few ppl have been drooling over to put into a Win95 "game
> > > server" :)  I don't think I'm getting much out of it with plain X running,
> > > and even if its just something to show off what I can do, that would be
> > > cool...
> > 
> > try Blender ? or mpegtv (mtv), or fxtv (if you have a video acquisition
> > card)...
> 
> no video acquisition card yet...next toy...
> 
> downloaded blender...going to have to flip to my old card and see if I
> notice a difference between the two...tried a few of the demos in the
> tutor pack, and altho they look impressive, they look slow too, but I'm
> curious as to whether they'd look worse with my old card or not *shrug*

>From playing with blender a bit I'd guess you need the heftiest CPU 
money can buy, and then buy the best video card from the money left.

Wilko
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