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Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It outlaws reverse
engineering and decompiling of any proprietary software (in the US at
least)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:42
PM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
I was sorta thinking that it might be illegal but umm err... What's
DMCA stand for?
----- Original Message -----
From:
Neale Roberts
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 9:41
AM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
Except that would be illegal under the
DMCA.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001
1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
Yes and no. Yes, nVidia bought all 3dfx assets and yes that
meant no more drivers, but also if you looked around a little it was easy
enough to find slightly modified hacked Windows 2000 drivers put out by
the 3rd party so it is only logical to say that Microsoft could have
edited to 2000 drivers themselves if they wanted support for the Voodoo
series.
Lakario
----- Original Message -----
From:
Tom
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001
5:52 AM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What
causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards
actually, it aint micrsofts fault. When voodoo went
bust, all the drivers
went (I think a company (nvidia?) bought the
rights to them or something)
and so no new XP drivers couldnt be
written.
So actually its voodoos fault :)
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Original Message -----
From: "Tim Holt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 28,
2001 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow
error w/ATI cards
> I, and 30713.616 people now hate you
:^)
>
> Nathan Taylor wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry,
the truth can't be helped...
> >
> >
>
>
> > I had a Voodoo 5 until Xmas, on which I got my GeForce
3 Ti200, love at
> > first site. The Voodoo 5 doesn't
work with Windows XP, its extremely
> > incompatible and it's
just plain ugly. I mean I haven't seen the Voodoo
> > 3
but the Voodoo 5 is a monster of a card, about 10 inches long with
2
> > fans and it requires it's own power supply whereas the
Geforce 3 is
> > about 5 inches long, one fan and twice the
functionality.
> >
> >
> >
> >
Granted, there are plenty of users with the Voodoo series and
they
> > should be tended to, but look at Microsoft, they
didn't shive gits about
> > the Voodoo series when they
released Windows XP, maybe it's about time
> > that the rest of
the development community to follow.
> >
> >
>
>
> > Now I am not saying it is necessary to have a
massively 1337 system, I
> > am only saying that it may be
about time for people to upgrade to the
times.
> >
>
>
> >
> > -Lakario
> >
> > Master
of Slashdot Fodder
> >
> >
> >
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> > From: Tim Holt
>
>
> > Sent: Friday, December 28,
2001 2:17 PM
> >
> > To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused
the overflow error w/ATI
> >
cards
> >
> >
> >
>
> > I have a simple
suggestion. Voodoo died, get a new card.
> >
>
> Nope - bad response. You just
told 35,000 people "sorry, but we
don't
>
> want to help you".
> >
>
> You've read Valve's hardware survey,
haven't you? the one at
> >
http://valve.speakeasy.net/survey/ Read it - because it's
not
always
> > what you
expect. Eg, 50% of users have 128 MB of RAM or less.
Only
> > about 15% of users have a 1
gig or faster box. Most ppl (22.5%) use
a
>
> Riva TNT2. 5% use Voodoo 3.
Only 52% use AGP (which means 48% are
PCI
>
> or what's on their mother board).
>
>
> > It would be great to design a
game aimed at 1.5 gig boxes with 512
MB
>
> and Geforce 3 on AGPx4, and T3 connections
- but it aint reality.
> >
> >
Now back to Voodoo 3/3k. You could just say "We don't
support
Voodoo
> > 3/3k" with a MOD,
but let's do a little math first. 639867 people
>
> answered the survey. 4.8% have Voodoo
3 cards. That's 30,700
people
>
> you just told were SOL. That's a lot
of people.
> >
> > Ah -
crap. I think I just hijacked my own thread and turned it
into
> > another slashdot worthy ramble
:^/
> >
> >
> >
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