Hi, just another word

However, when the time comes when you can buy any 3D card (3dfx, nVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc.) and be sure that it'll be fully OpenGL accelerated in Linux (or in XFree86 itself), things may begin to change. Totally right! I still don't think that Lin will become a nice and fast gaming platform, anyway. They're just two different things... I use a bicicle when I want to go to the supermarket, and a plane when I plan (uououo, what a pun! ;) to go to San Francisco... guess who is the cycle and who the plane between Lin and win... ;) I am hoping for an accelerated version of 'serious' programs like POVRay... Blender...

There should be an OS for gaming/multimedia and an OS for 'other'. Rather

BTW, anyone knows if there is a landscape modelling packet for linux? Something like Vista pro or Bryce... I trade the info for the location of QuakeII and Quake and Doom, if you want... Just go to www.download.com , launch a search with the term 'Linux' and there will be showed three pages full of links to Star Office, Wordperfect and to the ID games... than

trying to run one OS under another Yeah, that's how I'm doing! Linux for all, and Win for games, even if I guess that this isn't the way Billy The Kid Gates would approve... ;)

The emulator [of N64], as far as I remember, is minute (couple of megs maybe?). The game is 25MB (compressed, I assume). The performance? Damn good. Damn good and totally out of legality, of course. It's outlaw even making a image of an owned cartridge for personal use, don't speak about spreading on Internet... Nintendo haven't the concept of Free Software, it seems...

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Germano Rizzo wrote:

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Both nVidia and 3dfx have promised "full" 3D for Linux / XFree86 in the future, but until then, I have to use Windoze for games. -- Are u sure that, even after this, you will change platform for games?

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3D support doesn't mean that games will be ported to Linux, considered

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it's still not spread enough between home users, and that the 900f games are built over Direct3D... I don't think that M$oft will port DirectX to Lin (I doubt it would be possible, either), nor that Electronic Arts etc. will translate the code for UNIX with the perspective of selling not more than 50'000 copies of a game for this platform... If you successfully use win to play, what could make them suppose you want to change this situation?

You're right. There'll (almost surely) never be a D3D for Linux, and it probably will never replace Win9x as a gaming platform. However, when the time comes when you can buy any 3D card (3dfx, nVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc.) and be sure that it'll be fully OpenGL accelerated in Linux (or in XFree86 itself), things may begin to change. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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