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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Data: gioved� 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.
>> >--
>> 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 90% of
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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