Ooo, coolness ----- Original Message ----- From: Neale Roberts Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] What causes/caused the overflow error w/ATI cards 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 :)
----- 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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