Pure vapourware as far as I'm concerned. They don't have it running in silicon, just a software emulation running on NT. They say the emulation runs at the speed the actual silicon product runs at.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass off. Who gives a crap about the actual card then, just give me the simulator. I'll add my own features thanks.
And, the images shown could be knocked up in a couple of days in Photoshop or Gimp. Check the water reflection shot. It lookes EXTRMELY fake to me.
The depth-of-field looks plain wrong. Why aren't the shots hi-res?? Photoshop filters look even more obvious in hi-res.
Imagine the spec of an NT box required to emulate a chip like the Glaze at full speed. They don't exist.
I wouldn't take it too seriously if I were you. They have a staff of 7, only 2 of which are designing the Glaze hardware. Hmm 2 engineers vs however many NVidia or SGI or 3Dfx employ.
Someone somewhere is having a big laugh. I'll be very, very surprised if ANYTHING EVER comes of this.
Certainly something to think about. All the companies I come into contact with a very keen to hire young programmers and pay them huge amounts of money, precisely for the fact that they are willing to work a 70 hour week.
What the young programmers don't realise is that they're paying a 35 year old programmer the same money for a 40 hour week. My advise to young kids about to jump into the big money job. Check out what someone older at the company with the same skill set is getting for a regular weeks work. Probably the same as what you're getting for those long hours. Don't get caught out.
I learned quickly not to go WOW!! at the money I was being offered and look between the lines.
It took some people by surprise when I said, "Yeah, I'll work a 70 hour week, but you'll damn well pay me properly for it!!".
Still being offered silly money at 19 is kind of nice!!
They finally got a price for the Xentor in EB. Hmm....100 quid sounds not too bad, although I think it's only a 16Mb version.
I'm tempted by the Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra (about £145 from Dabs I think). I think I'll stick with the TNT2 and Creative Labs since I already have a Creative TNT.
Can't wait for XF86 4.0 and proper hardware acceleration.
BTW, did you get hit hard at RGU by Worm.Explore??
You should be administering our lovely RGU network, not perusing the wonderful/. !!
Anyway, yeah...I now have a reason to re-install SuSE on my development box. Lack of OpenGL support is the main reason Linux has only temporary residence on my machine.
I recommend a TNT2 Ultra.....
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Well done chaps. Jolly good show and all that.
/. despite the hot grits and HUGE amounts of shit comments posted here.
I'm still reading
I'm just glad I can still see the wood for the trees.
Thanks for the hard work. I hope you make a fortune doing this. By yourselves something nice!
Pure vapourware as far as I'm concerned. They don't have it running in silicon, just a software emulation running on NT. They say the emulation runs at the speed the actual silicon product runs at.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass off. Who gives a crap about the actual card then, just give me the simulator. I'll add my own features thanks.
And, the images shown could be knocked up in a couple of days in Photoshop or Gimp. Check the water reflection shot. It lookes EXTRMELY fake to me.
The depth-of-field looks plain wrong. Why aren't the shots hi-res?? Photoshop filters look even more obvious in hi-res.
Imagine the spec of an NT box required to emulate a chip like the Glaze at full speed. They don't exist.
I wouldn't take it too seriously if I were you. They have a staff of 7, only 2 of which are designing the Glaze hardware. Hmm 2 engineers vs however many NVidia or SGI or 3Dfx employ.
Someone somewhere is having a big laugh. I'll be very, very surprised if ANYTHING EVER comes of this.
Certainly something to think about. All the companies I come into contact with a very keen to hire young programmers and pay them huge amounts of money, precisely for the fact that they are willing to work a 70 hour week.
What the young programmers don't realise is that they're paying a 35 year old programmer the same money for a 40 hour week. My advise to young kids about to jump into the big money job. Check out what someone older at the company with the same skill set is getting for a regular weeks work. Probably the same as what you're getting for those long hours. Don't get caught out.
I learned quickly not to go WOW!! at the money I was being offered and look between the lines.
It took some people by surprise when I said, "Yeah, I'll work a 70 hour week, but you'll damn well pay me properly for it!!".
Still being offered silly money at 19 is kind of nice!!
They finally got a price for the Xentor in EB. Hmm....100 quid sounds not too bad, although I think it's only a 16Mb version.
I'm tempted by the Creative Labs TNT2 Ultra (about £145 from Dabs I think). I think I'll stick with the TNT2 and Creative Labs since I already have a Creative TNT.
Can't wait for XF86 4.0 and proper hardware acceleration.
BTW, did you get hit hard at RGU by Worm.Explore??
You should be administering our lovely RGU network, not perusing the wonderful /. !!
Anyway, yeah...I now have a reason to re-install SuSE on my development box. Lack of OpenGL support is the main reason Linux has only temporary residence on my machine.
I recommend a TNT2 Ultra.....
Ryszard Sommefeldt - RGU Student!!
http://www.planet3dfx.com/fastcard
fastcard@planet3dfx.com