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Publishing house: Betascript Publishing Website: The book will be available in both English and Spanish language editions, each featuring a dust jacket with artwork based on the iconic artwork that would feature on 3DFX graphics card packaging from the 3000 series onward. has made best efforts to ensure that the information contained in this document is accurate and reliable. The Voodoo cards were the first to offer performance to really make 3D games work well, and Glide became widely used as a result. It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards.
Also, if theyre doing a book about the legacy of 3Dfx they should be using that logo and not the one the company chose later on before the demise but thats just my personal opinion.
Although it originally started as a proprietary API, it was later open sourced by 3dfx themselves. Glide-wrapped GLQuake never looked so good before that Reactions: AlphaQup, tangoseal. Glide is a 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. Most DOS 3Dfx games would look for this in their own directory, and would load it at runtime to use the installed 3Dfx card (there were a few early exceptions which built their 3Dfx support in).
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Eligible for voucher ISBN-13: 978-613-3-30196-2 ISBN-10: 6133301961 EAN: 9786133301962 Book language:īlurb/Shorttext: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Im adding GLIDE to my 3d class libraries. The 3Dfx DOS drivers include a DOS/4G overlay, GLIDE2X.OVL, which provides the implementation of Glide appropriate for the card they drive.
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