From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:14:36 +0000

Re: driver info.

Leimy wrote:
> 
> Well I have almost gone nuts looking for documentation for the Trident
> Chipset.  None of what I have found is readable to me so  I suppose I will
> have to throw in the towel.  I really want to do something substantial
> this summer as far as linux programming goes.  I am going to a computer
> show this weekend and will probably pick up a new graphics card there.  I
> need to know though of the two which I should get.  RIVA TNT or 3DFX?
> 
> So far 3dFX controls the Windows market.  But I see theTNT cards are
> holding their own.
> 
> Documentation-wise TNT seems to be the way to go.
> 
> Any suggestions especially relating to compatibility with this project
> would be greatly appreciated.

Well TNT is already supported by KGIcon to some extent, while 3DFX
doesn't seem likely to be supported by any free project within
the forseeable future. 3DFX is even sueing Creative for implementing
the Glide API for non 3DFX hardware...
(Wonder if they will sue me for implementing part of the Glide API
for no hardware ;)

The Voodoo II and Voodoo Graphics has the advantage (if you already
have a good 2D card) that you can keep your normal 2D card, hook up
an extra monitor, and run normal LibGGI apps and XGGI on the 3DFX card.
But with Voodoo 3 I see no advantage over a TNT card, especially
as Voodoo 3 AFAIK isn't as good as the TNT (it doesn't support AGP
texturing for example, so when textures are getting larger a Voodoo 3
will start crawling)

//Marcus
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