On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> winterlion wrote:
> > > > PS: anyone know of any embedded hardware that includes a 3D accel? :)
> > >
> > > No. I guess you will have to build something. Does it have to be low
> > > power or just small or what?
> >
> > low power *sigh*.
> > I'm working with umm palmtop-style stuff. Need OpenGL :)
> > and accelerated.
> >
> > None to concerned about chipset really but 3dfx has my favour due to
> > openness (although I'm a little concerned about that giant fan :)
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> Voodoo3 3000 doesnt have a fan. Eats quite a lot of power though. Utah-glx
> has some 3D support for one of the ATI laptop chipsets, though they are not
> very fast, might be good enough. Would need porting to fb of course... You
> could try underclocking the Voodoo (one of the low end PCI ones perhaps),
> at half the clock speed it might be low power and still have enough fill
> for 640x480.
>
> What are you building?
Long story. Told it to the berlin-folks one time but it's neither here
nor there.
To put it simply - a portable VR/based thingy. Can't really say
more. Not really happy with using X as a basis but I could. Yah it's a
commercial project - although with me being the primary developer *grin*
all source -will- go public. Well, applicable source anyways. - once the
product goes commercial, and not before.
I've got a nice GL-based GUI coming together - and it's violently not 2D
based. Well, it supports some 2D but really not much. Figured I'd go
and port this thing to berlin later. or vice versa. I'm not in any rush
for berlin anymore - just OpenGL. Though I use a GGI-like event mechanism
internally (designed to work like GGI although it talks GLX. I could
release it if ya want but it's a thread-based *cheap hack* :)
And FWIW I'm not particularily interested in portability but it'd be handy
fer the GUI to run under windows at some later date, and perhaps iMacs as
well as my mom's got one :)
more later...
G'day, eh? :)
- Winterlion (aka Teunis but I'm getting out of the habit of using
my RL name online :)
PS: are there any PowerPC devel tools available as open
source? ie: gcc/g++? I don't need a graphical devel tool, can always
spin me own if I really need it (which I don't :)
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