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To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (5671)	7/22/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: David R. Parker	Respond to of 16960

Stuart....thanks for the laugh.... "Please ignore the 800lb gorilla named Bill sitting in the corner eating a shiny Apple and crapping out drunken Navigators while beating an Oracle to death, this could work and would blow the Street and us away." Hehe...you trying to win one of those free memberships?????? Regards, David

To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (5671)	7/22/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Greg S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

>> I saw a Windows 98 demo video a few months ago and the demonstrator whizzed over the fact that they had a Voodoo card installed and it really helped with game graphics. Imagine if you picked up Office 99 and it said "Enhanced for 3Dfx." Schwing!!! ;-) << Stuart - your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated! Unfortunately, Microsoft has already unveiled Chrome, its integration of DirectX with the standard windows GUI which will allow developers to do cool things like map web pages onto cubes, tilt folders and windows away from the user, etc. Remember, Microsoft has their own 3D API called Direct3D, which has a fair amount of clout in the industry even if it's not as fast or as cool as our buddy Glide. Above all, they want people to use Direct3D regardless of what video card they have - their goal is to make Direct3D THE standard 3D API that provides cross-hardware functionality at a fast speed. In short, don't get your hopes up on Microsoft ever touting anything as "3Dfx enhanced". -G

To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (5671)	7/22/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Stuart this is a great idea. You can abandon any hope of any microsoft product being optimized for any non-microsoft controlled component away. But that does not mean that a 3Dfx-Plus! pack cannot happen. Plus is not an API and does not require much programming. The brilliant point in your post (IMHO) was that 3Dfx should distribute/promote pieces of code which are both eye-catching and visible most (all?) of the time (these are the only criterias; the app does not have to be 'useful'). A psuedo Plus! pack or fancy screen savers fit the bill just fine. For all that matters, 3Dfx can write these apps in Direct3D instead of glide, they just need to make sure that the app will not run on any machine that does not have a Voodoo based graphics card. The whole point being that there are many people who do a lot more with their computers than play Quake and having such applications will give them a chance to take advantage of their Voodoo card while they are not playing. More importantly, from the company and share holders point of view, it provides an advertisement for 3Dfx whenever someone other than the owner looks at the computer screen. I think you should polish your suggestion a little bit and discuss it with 3Dfx. Oh, and one last thing. Ignore those who compensate for their lack of imagination by showing their poor manners. Regards, Sun Tzu