[Files] Warp3D software render driver | ANN.lu |
Posted on 19-Feb-2002 14:42 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 158 comments View flat View list |
"This is a software driver for Warp3D, which enables:
using Warp3D applications, demos and games with PPC Amigas not equipped with a 3D GFx board, or not equiped with a GFx board at all (but requires P96 or CGX) [and] using Warp3D applications, demos and games not compatible with a 3D Gfx board (example : WipeOut and CGx4/Voodoo3)." More details in the readme.
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Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 23-Feb-2002 01:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 154 (Bill Hoggett): Market forces? Why should we leave this to market forces, if those
forces are rapidly leading us towards an ever more total monopoly?
This is not some kind of natural law that we have to obey. *We* are
the ones setting the rules for the "market". If the "market" doesn't
satisfy our needs and wants we change the rules. Simple as that.
Yes, PPC is technologically superior, that's true, but it's most
important feature imho is that it does not run Windows.
A lot of people think that opposing an operating system is at best
immature and in any case a sign that someone is paying too much
attention to something that isn't really so important.
I'd like those people to stop and think for a few moments about a few
things, such as the internet. Why don't we pay a fee for every email
we send to the email distributor? Why don't we pay a fee per hit we
get on our homepages? Why is it that anyone can put up a homepage,
without paying a license to someone?
Maybe you think that this wouldn't be "natural". But that order is
precisely what is "natural" about most comparable things in our
society, such as telephones, radio and so on. Why not the internet?
The answer: Because it wasn't developed with profit in mind. In fact,
corporations missed the boat for a long, long time, until the system
was already established.
But of course that does not mean that they haven't realized their
mistake and that they aren't doing all that is in their powers to
change the way things work. Fortunately, the fact that the internet
*does* exist and *does* work as it is today makes it harder to impose
a different order. This is why we do not see a conference of the big
players declare that a "free" internet is an economical impossibility,
and that the system must be built such that everyone who wishes to
distribute information on the internet must take the associated costs.
However, this doesn't mean that we're safe. Corporations can of course
impose whatever fees they like on their own services. Which is fine -
but only as long as we actually have a choice not to use their
services. And frankly, it's doubtful whether that is actually the case
when it comes to Microsoft. If the current trend continues, it will
not be just the vast majority who uses MSIE in a few years, it will be
everyone except the few who can afford not being able to gather
information from many major providers of news, company information
and internet services. And don't think Microsoft will be content with
that - no, that is only the beginning for them. |
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