Jon, You could be right. I don't do 3d on Linux yet and don't have a 3Dfx board. But, personally, I'd be a bit leery of buying hardware that I _knew_ was going to be orphaned soon.
dar On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote: > "David A. Rogers" wrote: > > > > You might want to rethink your purchase. 3dfx is going out of business > > early > > in the new year. They have sold their intellectual property to nvidea. > > In business or not, 3Dfx hardware is arguably still the best-supported > and most-fully-functional fast 3D using Free software. Regardless of > whether or not there will be new products from nVidia based on 3Dfx > designs (I'm sure there won't be), GLide is still 100% free, and the > drivers can still be tweaked and tuned to be faster than they currently > are. But I'm not bitter...;) > >
