Oops, forgot to mention that being a wrapper, it means that the only thing they borrow from glide is the API. This means that there is no need to get the SDK and therefore no "use this for glide games only" license clause to worry about.
I think it gives glide a chance to stand on it's own merits. I don't know much about the pros and cons of glide vs openGL but if it is quicker to write something with glide instead of openGL and the game will run fine on my TNT card, well then glide has won one battle. It effectively removes the voodoo monopoly on glide.
My guess would be that this is not an emulator, just a wrapper. It probably wraps around directx to give it the same interface as glide. This is awesome in my mind since glide's edge for forcing users to buy voodoo cards is gone. There should be no legal hassle since it is as legal as writing wrappers around legacy code to give it a different look. Creative is very bold in doing this, I have to start buying more of their products. Think I'll start with the live board when the drivers are done.
That's not exactly funny, as in they messed up. It's a carefully crafted dirty marketting strategy:) You were gonna buy NT anyway, now you just gave you a copy of VJ++ so they can tell the world how much you loved it and had to have it. You even paid $80 for it when you could have gotten another IDE for java from somewhere else.
You don't feel insulted because you are assuming too much. I'll wager they were referring to 2D-only, which has happenned in one form or another. You were probably referring to 3D, the ability to play quake under linux. As a TNT owner myself, I don't think this will happen soon. My next card will most probably be one with MesaGL support (3dfx). I rushed into the decision for this TNT and am regretting it. nVidia needs to realize that there is a fairly substantial group that will not buy their chip if it continues it's current path.
Who the hell is Brian the Wise? Personally, I'd rather see TNT support so I can play quake with my card under linux. Until that happens, nVidia will not be getting any more of my money.
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Oops, forgot to mention that being a wrapper, it means that the only thing they borrow from glide is the API. This means that there is no need to get the SDK and therefore no "use this for glide games only" license clause to worry about.
I think it gives glide a chance to stand on it's own merits. I don't know much about the pros and cons of glide vs openGL but if it is quicker to write something with glide instead of openGL and the game will run fine on my TNT card, well then glide has won one battle. It effectively removes the voodoo monopoly on glide.
My guess would be that this is not an emulator, just a wrapper. It probably wraps around directx to give it the same interface as glide. This is awesome in my mind since glide's edge for forcing users to buy voodoo cards is gone. There should be no legal hassle since it is as legal as writing wrappers around legacy code to give it a different look. Creative is very bold in doing this, I have to start buying more of their products. Think I'll start with the live board when the drivers are done.
That's not exactly funny, as in they messed up. It's a carefully crafted dirty marketting strategy :)
You were gonna buy NT anyway, now you just gave you a copy of VJ++ so they can tell the world how much you loved it and had to have it. You even paid $80 for it when you could have gotten another IDE for java from somewhere else.
You don't feel insulted because you are assuming too much. I'll wager they were referring to 2D-only, which has happenned in one form or another. You were probably referring to 3D, the ability to play quake under linux. As a TNT owner myself, I don't think this will happen soon. My next card will most probably be one with MesaGL support (3dfx). I rushed into the decision for this TNT and am regretting it. nVidia needs to realize that there is a fairly substantial group that will not buy their chip if it continues it's current path.
Who the hell is Brian the Wise? Personally, I'd rather see TNT support so I can play quake with my card under linux. Until that happens, nVidia will not be getting any more of my money.