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To: Joseph Hoane who wrote (9352)	12/2/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Tim J. Flick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

TDFX Trading! Robbie Stephens is still a major seller in TDFX. Hard to say when his well will dry up. I liked the action today, and I saw some buyers that I have not seen before. If RS will finish, the stock will perform much better right away. Still long!!

To: Joseph Hoane who wrote (9352)	12/2/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Joseph Hoane	Respond to of 16960

OK, I got the 12/1 3dfx reference drivers for my banshee card. Quake I still doesn't work, but everything else seems to, including Battlezone with the "large resources" or whatever. I got it to do tripple buffering on Battlezone. It definitely looks cooler than V1. I saw a minimum of 23FPS. One benchmark, "X" was almost 25% faster on Banshee than it was on Voodoo1 and it looked way better. This is a K6-233 system. Haven't finished the benchmarks. I suspect that the relative advantage of the Banshee over the Voodoo1 will be on newer games. More later. Apparently, Creative and Guillemot have had decent drivers out since early November for the Banshee. Wicked3D apparently has not. Supposedly nothing worked on Battlezone, which now works with the new 3dfx drivers. There is a new version of MiniGL out. It has special versions for each of Q, Q2, Half Life, Heretic 2, Hexen 2, and Sin. I suspect that any OEM version of the Banshee would be well supported by 3dfx. I was at Comp USA today (getting Sin, pursuant to Chip's recommendation), I saw lots of TNT's readily available. Banshee's were not readily noticeable. My main point vis a vis investing is that the Banshee is coming on line. I suppose that TNT availablity and reputed good drivers have a large effect on sales. If I weren't facile with finding things on the net, I would have returned my Banshee card today out of frustration. Not every user will put up with that. On the other hand, I absolutely wanted the Banshee or a Voodoo2 to make the new games perform well on my machine and things will get better, in fact already are better if you bought a Guillemot or a Creative. Enough, Joe Hoane

To: Joseph Hoane who wrote (9352)	12/3/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: timbur	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Software companies Joseph Hoane wrote: PS I like Railroad Tycoon II. It's just the same but bigger, better, more. I also can't wait for HeroesOfMightandMagic III. Bigger, better, more of a good thing, I hope. Dune 2000 was exactly the same as Dune 2, just updated to the newest engine and user interface tweaks. It was not bigger, better, more. Joseph, There are a few companies from whom I'll buy any title they produce. Right now these are Pop Top (makers of RTII, HOMM, HOMMII, HOMMIII), CaveDog, Firaxis, and Blizzard (makers of, well, you know). They have a history of producing relatively bug-free games, with good gameplay. Similarly, there are a few companies from whom I will have to read a review before buying another game from them. These are Sierra (NOT Papyrus produced games, or certain adventure lines like King's Quest and Gabriel Knight) and Westwood. I'm sure I'm forgetting some companies here. Then there are the companies which produce games with great gameplay and strategy, but suck with the interfaces and have exceedingly buggy libraries. Chief of these were the Microprose and Avalon Hill games produced by Sim-Tex. Their DOS library for MOM sucked so badly, I created a partition solely for their games, called "SIMTEX_SUX". After exiting a game of MOM, it screwed up your COMMAND.COM so badly that if you typed "DIR", it might scramble the FAT on the drive. Lovely! (This was fixed in patch 1.22) Tim "History of Gaming 101" Burnett