On 25-Mar-99 Pedro Timoteo wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
But I wonder whether Linux being the development platform for the Playstation
2, will change it into becoming the defacto standard for gaming.
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