On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Dany Dionne wrote:
>
> > I'll buy a 3D video card this summer and i can expense 750$ (1000$
> > Canadien). This card is to use in the developpment of a 3D environnement
> > in OPENGL on PC. Do you have any recommendations? I don't know if it's a
>
> I'd settle for those S3 based cards. S3 has 3D accelerators available
> nowadays.. They have a good profile against software developers, and my
> experience is that support is added to their products first. XFree has
> always had good S3 support.
>
> But you'd better check out whatever OpenGL library you are going to use
> first. Mesa (for Debian Linux) is going to include some hardware support
> soon, but you'd better check out their WWW page first.
>
> // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37]
>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Paul)
Subject: Mesa 2.2 released
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Date: 14 Mar 1997 14:40:44 GMT
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Version 2.2 of Mesa (my free OpenGL work-alike library) is now available.
Among the new features in 2.2 are:
faster flat-shaded dithered triangles
3-D texture mapping
BeOS driver
3Dfx VooDoo driver
updated MS-DOS driver
many bug fixes
See http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html for more information
including download sites.
-Brian
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