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...
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...
There should be an OS for gaming/multimedia and an OS for 'other'. Rather
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...
Greetings,
Mano :)
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Da: Pedro Timoteo <deh@ip.pt>
A: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Data: giovedì 25 marzo 1999 13.31
Oggetto: [SuSE Linux] Re: R: 3D cards
Germano Rizzo wrote:
Both nVidia and 3dfx have promised "full" 3D for Linux / XFree86 in the
future, but until then, I have to use Windoze for games.
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Are u sure that, even after this, you will change platform for games?
A
3D support doesn't mean that games will be ported to Linux, considered
that
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.
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