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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (13110)	6/3/1999 6:43:00 PM
From: Eric Howard	Respond to of 16960

Sun Sharky from Sharky Extreme has a write up on the Computex trade show on his website. There are two articles one for each day he was there. sharkyextreme.com and sharkyextreme.com Also in other news S3 sent out a press release that they would have a notebook version of the Savage 4 in .18 micron coming out in the 3rd quarter. If this happens people might finally have a decent notebook for games. A couple of days ago ATI licensed the rights to the mips core. Want to tell us what you are going to build with it Marc?

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (13110)	6/4/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: timbur	Respond to of 16960

Yes, the 16-bit color limitation is for 3D only. Running normal applications like Office suites run in 2D, which Voodoo3 or Banshee can display in 32-bit color. What about 3D-in-a-window? Not sure, but I think you can run a 32-bit color 2D desktop and have a 16-bit 3D window on it. 16-bit is 2^16 = 65536 24-bit is (2^16)(2^8) = 16777216 32-bit is 2^32 = (2^16)(2^16) = 4294967296!!!! But actually, your monitor displays only 24-bit color. The other 8 bits are used for something called an alpha-channel, which is used for overlays, sort of like that little FOX logo in the lower right corner of your TV during the X-Files. Glide vs D3D: On Voodoo cards, the Glide version will run faster and may look a little bit better than the D3D version. D3D has added a lot of stuff in the last couple of years, so the differences in newer games will probably not be that noticable; but in older games it may be quite noticeable. Cheers, Tim