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To: Mike Sesan who wrote (3708)	6/4/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: Tae Spam Kim	Respond to of 16960

It looks like the CEO (Ballard) is starting to get his vision out to investors, a la Motley Fool and DLJ. Does anyone know if Banshee will support 24 bit color? That's the one important feature that would be really nice to have. Even if Banshee is slower than TNT (I heard that Savage 3d doesn't run Quake2/Unreall well) - the mindshare of Glide will keep people in the 3dfx camp. Who is going to give up their Nba Live, Fifa, Longbow 2, F-15, Wing Commander Prophecy, etc.? Not any hard core gamer. Tae Kim oursquare.com

To: Mike Sesan who wrote (3708)	6/4/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Re: DLJ's comment that "At the recent E3 electronic gaming conference, 3Dfx had 160 game titles running in its booth." This statement is flat-out wrong. They only had about 20 PCs set up in the booth for crying out loud! What they DID have was a neat poster that had TONS of screenshots from games that had "3Dfx support." There may have been 160 screen shots - I didn't count - and unfortunately, my poster bit the big one as part of my third attempt at luggage repacking (it was crumpled beyond repair by then anyway). What I remember of the poster is that it showed lots of games that I'd never ever heard of or (more importantly) seen offered for sale locally. I can't say that I studied it in extreme detail, but I did notice that there were also several notable D3D-only titles such as CART Precision Racing. (I really wish I'd kept it now.) BTW, by 3Dfx's own count (http://www.3dfx.com/voodoo/software/index.html) there are only 86 3D accelerated games currently shipping (37 Glide-only, 34 D3D-only) with an additional 78 listed as "Upcoming". Unfortunately, this page has no date on it (grrrr...) and I'm spot-checking it for accuracy now. Chip