Re: [newbie] linux & games, and when will they fix the address book?

[John Aldrich]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > Well, I was planning on probably getting a Voodoo3-2000, since my
> > system doesn't have AGP. If it did, I'd probably use this TNT I have
> > lying around. :-)
> >     John
> Supposedly (or as near as one of my friends has figured from spending countless
> hours looking over the snapshots) XFree86 4 would give you the ability to use
> both, i.e. the Voodoo3 as a dedicated 3d card. . .this is a rumor and not for
> sure, but i wouldnt be surprised, Mesa does some really neat things. . .for
> example, it has a hack that lets a Voodoo or a Voodoo2 render 3D to a window, a
> feat that was reported to be not possible due to hardware. . .so im pretty
> excited to see what sort of cool things are planned. . .i wish there was more
> info on the website. . .
> 
Well, my card is *supposed* to do some 3d acceleration (Virge/GX) but
I've never seen it, even under Windows. :-)
        John