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Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?

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From: dabraun
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00
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>Jason Keeney wrote:
>> 
>> : >>> ELSA has graphic cards and drivers that support HW OpenGL
>> : >>> Look their site, and you will find ELSA has some of the best
>> : >>> OS/2-supported cards.
>> : >>
>> : >>And ELSA supports hardware acceleration under WARP too, no matter
what
>> : >>other uninformed people say.
>> 
>> Elsa does NOT have hardware accelerated OpenGL for OS/2.  Their
driver's do
>> have 2-D acceleration and EnDive.
>> 
>> As of now, there are ZERO hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers for
OS/2.
>> 
>
>
>
>Did I mention OpenGL?
>

<snip info from ELSA readme>

>
>From conversations I've had with some people I would expect OpenGL
>acceleration for ELSA cards running under WARP in the near future.
>
>
>Robert Dohrenburg.
>

You've been acting like it was opengl all along - EVERY decent
video card offers accelerated drivers for OS/2.  The point is
though that NONE of them offer OpenGL acceleration - and none
of them even can offer it because IBM has not made the info
available to write such drivers...

Not every video card supports acclerated scaling for DIVE, and
yes, the elsa card is one of the few that does ... unfortunately
that ( "endive" ) never seems to work properly on any of the
cards that support it.

D.A.Braun
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David A. Braun                   -             dabraun@ibm.net
Meridian Software
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From: dabraun@ibm.net
Subject: Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?
Date: 1997/02/12
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