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

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From: Robert Dohrenburg
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
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dabraun@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> >
> >Again? Your expert oppinion of course.
> >
> >Robert Dohrenburg
> >
> 
> I'd like you to find _ONE_ person who didn't have to turn off
> EnDIVE to play TOB.  And it's NOT a problem with TOB - two
> different incarnations of my DIVE code do not work on computers
> with EnDIVE enabled.  It's pretty likely that IBM's DIVE demo
> code doesn't work - EnDIVE is ... I just don't get it but it's
> never worked as far as I've seen - if someone's actually seen
> it work - well?
> 
> Someone who recently tried a build of Seeds on an EnDIVE
> capable card didn't say there were any color problems or other
> things that people have had with TOB - but he got a framerate
> of 9-10 fps with EnDIVE enabled .... and a framerate of 25-30
> fps with it disabled - if that's you're definition of working ...
> 


Well, Sir.


I'm still waiting for my answer from one of your posts in the
comp.os.os2.games group. So I'm going to rephrase my question within
this post context.

Who exactly is "Someone"? and what did he/she do? What "capable" card
did he/she used? How was the frame rate measured? How did you get those
fps rates? I have TOB and I really would like to confirm your?
observations.

If I had to choose who to beleive between ELSA and DABraun, I would
choose ELSA every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

You know Sir, I haven't read anything positive in your posts regarding
OS/2, which makes me wonder. You criticize OpenGl, DIVE, EnDIVE, how IBM
handles it's affairs, etc, etc, yet fail to do anything POSITIVE about
it. You are either the *MOST* negative person alive or you have a hidden
agenda. So who really is David A Braun from Meridian Software? 

The internet is so impersonal that anyone can be/become whatever they
want to be. I've seen post of little kids posing as the heads of big
nonexistent corporations. That's one of the reasons I dont beleive half
of what is being posted on the Internet-News and I'm doubtful about the
other half.


Robert Dohrenburg.
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From: Robert Dohrenburg <rdohren@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?
Date: 1997/02/14
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