Yes but - what causes the overflow? I knew I'd hijack my own thread :^( Neale Roberts wrote:
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It outlaws reverse engineering and > decompiling of any proprietary software (in the US at least) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Nathan Taylor <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: HLCoders <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow error > w/ATI cards > > > > Except that would be illegal under the DMCA. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Nathan Taylor <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: HLCoders <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 :) > > > ----- 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 :^/ > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or > view the list > > > archives, please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Get more from the Web. 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