Proformance3
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16mb version for $180 dollers and the 32mb version for 2 something...
Well that's it.
Oh and does anyone know about when these cards are gonna be released.
Max
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Anthony Marcarelli
> 16mb version for $180 dollers and the 32mb version for 2 something...
> Well that's it.
> Oh and does anyone know about when these cards are gonna be released.
> Max
To add to this, does anyone know if they will support glide or not? I
heard at IMG that it would, but I'm not sure. I e-mailed Formac a few
days ago, but as of yet, I have recieved no response. Thanks.
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Peter Cohen
> To add to this, does anyone know if they will support glide or not? I
>heard at IMG that it would, but I'm not sure. I e-mailed Formac a few
>days ago, but as of yet, I have recieved no response. Thanks.
Formac has been talking about _emulated_ Glide support since Macworld
Expo. Early indications are that Glide drivers won't ship with the
ProFormance 3.
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Trevor Covert
> I've been visiting their sites for days when I click the
> proformancelinks I get nothing. Is it my browser(Netscape's
> Communicator4.6) or what?
I think the links are broken at formac.com. Try
<http://www.formac.co.uk/> or <http://www.formac.de/>.
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Richard
> Just to clear things up the Proformance3, it comes in two flavors. The
> 16mb version for $180 dollers and the 32mb version for 2 something...
> Well that's it.
> Oh and does anyone know about when these cards are gonna be released.
> Max
I've been visiting their sites for days when I click the
proformancelinks I get nothing. Is it my browser(Netscape's
Communicator4.6) or what?
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probably won't ship with one. It should also support RAVE by it's
release and it also will support OpenGL. The biggist wait for OpenGL on
the Proformance cards are the OpenGL DDK (driver development kit) to be
released. When Apple relaeses the DDK then the ball should really start
rolling. Oh and the formac page (whether it's the UK or the US site of
formac) has a lot of broken and -<not even there>- links. Like the
manual download page at the formac us site, I tried to download the
Proformance3 manual and the link isn't even there. Nor is the link there
for any of the other manuals. None the less the formac UK site sais the
Proformance should be released SOON.
Paul Lipps
, pco...@macgaming.com (Peter Cohen) wrote:
> In article <377687D4...@san.rr.com>, cae...@san.rr.com wrote:
>
>> To add to this, does anyone know if they will support glide or not? I
>>heard at IMG that it would, but I'm not sure. I e-mailed Formac a few
>>days ago, but as of yet, I have recieved no response. Thanks.
>
> Formac has been talking about _emulated_ Glide support since Macworld
> Expo. Early indications are that Glide drivers won't ship with the
> ProFormance 3.
Hmmmmm, I doubt they will attempt to emulate GLIDE until they see if 3dfx
wins their lawsuit against Creative for creating there GLIDE wrapper for TNT
cards.....
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Peter Cohen
<75018407DEA2424A.5D386710...@lp.airnews.net>, "Paul
Lipps" <pli...@cyberramp.net> wrote:
>Hmmmmm, I doubt they will attempt to emulate GLIDE until they see if 3dfx
>wins their lawsuit against Creative for creating there GLIDE wrapper for TNT
>cards.....
I'm not so sure the Creative lawsuit will have any direct bearing on
Formac's engineering efforts. 3dfx's contention is that Creative had
broken a licensing contract forbidding Creative from using 3dfx source
code in any non-3dfx products. To the best of my knowledge, Formac and
3dfx have no such contract.
Any legal issues raised by 3dfx would likely have to pass the same litmus
test as other similar cases (such as Sony, Connectix, and bleem! for
example): whether Formac can prove its engineers are/were able to
reverse-engineer Glide driver compatibility without actually using any
3dfx source.
Paul Lipps
<pcohen-2806...@dialup-209.244.224.234.boston2.level3.net> ,
pco...@macgaming.com (Peter Cohen) wrote:
> In article
> <75018407DEA2424A.5D386710...@lp.airnews.net>, "Paul
> Lipps" <pli...@cyberramp.net> wrote:
>
>>Hmmmmm, I doubt they will attempt to emulate GLIDE until they see if 3dfx
>>wins their lawsuit against Creative for creating there GLIDE wrapper for TNT
>>cards.....
>
> I'm not so sure the Creative lawsuit will have any direct bearing on
> Formac's engineering efforts. 3dfx's contention is that Creative had
> broken a licensing contract forbidding Creative from using 3dfx source
> code in any non-3dfx products. To the best of my knowledge, Formac and
> 3dfx have no such contract.
>
> Any legal issues raised by 3dfx would likely have to pass the same litmus
> test as other similar cases (such as Sony, Connectix, and bleem! for
> example): whether Formac can prove its engineers are/were able to
> reverse-engineer Glide driver compatibility without actually using any
> 3dfx source.
Good point!
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