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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (7804)	9/30/1998 10:09:00 PM
From: Joe C.	Respond to of 16960

Someone over at the Fool had an interesting link to a RIVA site about dirty pool being played by TDFX (pasted the comment below). The accusation is nonsense since - any minimum wage stockboy could have made an honest mistake. What I found very interesting was the use of color coded stickers (required versus enhanced). I've never been to Babbages and I know that the stickers were mentioned in the press release. However, the color coding (and the Required wording) really drives the point home when its' a Glide only game. One final point about nVidia. Don't they seem just a tad bit paranoid - is it because everyone is suing them? The idea that two multi-million dollar companies (TDFX and Babbages) would do such a stupid thing on purpose when all software boxes have the driver support stated on the box just makes you wonder about the quality of the people over there. I guess Ballard wasn't kidding when he said that 3Dfx and nVidia would not make a good merger given their cultural differences. Joe C. <<3DFX Required! Oh Really? Here's an interesting bit sent by Dan the Man at Planet Riva, forwarded from NVIDIA. Seems 3DFX is really pushing things a bit (to put it mildly) with their latest retail displays. Here's the creamy middle: We recently found that 3Dfx is intentionally misleading retail customers in their new display at Babbages. Babbages has a 3Dfx section promoting its hardware and software. The assortment of software includes games that don't even have a Glide port and are D3D-only titles. On each of the software boxes, there is either a green sticker that says "3Dfx enhanced", for the Glide games, or a red sticker that says "3Dfx required!" for Microsoft Direct3D games! The examples of games with the red " 3Dfx required" stickers are Motocross Madness, Formula 1 and Turok, which are obviously D3D-only games. All of these titles will support any Direct3D hardware. It is incredible that Microsoft published games, like Motorcross Maddness, are being subjected to this kind of deceptive advertising. We have heard that the DirectX team is angry in Redmond and we are trying to find out if they will pull their titles from the display. Last week's action is one thing, but lying to retail consumers is pure desperation.>>