the Genesis 3D engine

[sebastian]

hi, i've got the genesis 3d engine here, i wonder if there's a port of the graphics driver to OpenGL anywhere,'cause it features only DirectX,Glide and software mode... another question: i've never seen Gilde-code before i got the Genesis3D, and i noticed that the Glide API looks VERY similar to OpenGL; what are the main differences of the both, and will Glide be supported in the future, i.e. does it make sense to let my engine support glide??
thanx,sebastian

[Michael Steinberg]

Glide is 3dfx specific, so you really must have time and money to make a glide-engine in addition to your normal engine (say OpenGL or DX).

[Divide Overflow]

Either that or be bored

Maybe you can MAKE money by doing a Glide
engine? Would 3dfx dump money on you for
doing that? :-)

[Michael Steinberg]

Wouldn't be very likely, since modern 3dfx cards ship with an opengl driver. It may be in their interrest to program a glide-only engine, but I don't think that developers today would even think about that option...

[Siwko]

3dfx comitted to dumping glide a year ago in their roadmap. Granted its fast, and its fairly simple, but the truth is that 3dfx considers it a legacy product.

Siwko