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To: AJ Berger who wrote (1120)	12/10/1997 10:46:00 AM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

AJ, there will always be some games which write specifically for hardware, particularly if they want a drop-dead beautiful demo. But Direct3D, although historically really bad, is undergoing lots of improvement. Also, Microsoft just released a deal with Silicon Graphics to co-develop OpenGL DDKs for WinX platforms. As these hardware-independent APIs improve, it will be easier to swap graphics cards ... of course some graphics cards will look a lot better, particularly if the software uses escape sequences. Since I'm not in the game development community, I'm not sure how much of a force 3dfx has become. From bits of news, it sounds like they may be doing quite well. -Bill