Not tdfx, but 3-D stuff for gamers:
But now anybody who wants to build an original 3-D graphics
game can pick up one such software engine for free -- thanks to
a game developer called Crack dot Com that went out of
business last year.
Started in June 1994 in Mesquite, Texas -- the Dallas suburb
that's home to id Software, makers of the frighteningly
successful Doom and Quake franchises -- Crack dot Com once
had a promising future. Its most popular game, a side-view
action shooter called Abuse, netted enough in royalties for the
company to fund work on a follow-up title.
Then the problems began. Crack dot Com spent way too much
time and money kicking around concepts for its next game
before settling on a plan for Golgotha -- a simulation/strategy
game similar to Command & Conquer, but with 3-D graphics.
Despite signed deals with AMD, Red Hat Software and a
European games publisher, Crack dot Com ran out of money
and shut its doors in September 1998. A month later, the
company's owners did an unusual, and generous, thing: They
took everything they had worked on for Golgotha -- the source
code, 3-D models, texture maps, sound effects library, music
and the complete script for voice actors -- and released it to the public.
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