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

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From: idanan
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
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In <5e1ofb$2djg$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net>, dabraun@ibm.net writes:
>>dabraun@ibm.net wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>
>>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 ...
>
What is EnDive exactly? And how does to compare to Dive?

Thanks in advance,

Itai
idanan@ibm.net
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From: idanan@ibm.net
Subject: Re: What's the best 3D graphics card for OS/2?
Date: 1997/02/15
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