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To: andrew r. chung who wrote (3696)	6/3/1998 9:07:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 16960

BANSHEE INFO!!!! bootnet.com "3Dfx has completed the first sampling of silicon for its next 2D/3D single-board solution, called Banshee, the company confirmed today. Company officials say they expect Banshee to offer the fastest 2D performance in the world, while offering 3D performance consumers expect from 3Dfx. Other details the company agreed to release: Banshee provides direct hardware polygon support that allows for the immediate drawing of polygons based on vertices data rather than relying on a middle step of software rasterization or drawing each line in the polygon. Banshee would thus be able to draw a polygon in "tens of cycles" rather than several thousand cycles. Banshee will also support 256 raster operations (ROPS). Banshee will perform 99 percent of the ROPS/Blit combination in hardware rather than relying on software for these frequently used calls. Cards will be compatible with both Voodoo flavors and be optimized for Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 6.0, as well as Glide and OpenGL. We know more, but if we spilled the beans today, we'd be dead tomorrow." ============== This is REAL, REAL, REAL news! Good news. Timely news. Useful news. Let's hope they don't clam up for another 4 months. BTW, how much are you willing to bet that there WON'T be a press release from the company about this? Also, if I were the Motley Fools, I'd be steamed. "Boot" scoops them while they're on the phone with Ballard! Chip coolhistory.com