Housemarque Inc. Andreas Ingo- For his 3Dfx Programming Secrets which both pointed my to Tommy Kruls articles and help me setup my compiler for 3Dfx-based programming.
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I suppose technically that share should have migrated over to Nvidia after the takeover, might have to look into that someday and see what might come of it aka "absolutely worthless. 3DFX GLIDE WRAPPER: zeckensacks Glide wrapper (235KM size source: /glide. Lost it in a move long ago but it was definitely something I'd still love to have on a wall just for shits and giggles. linuxglide-2.4 - Linux library implementing the GLIDE interface to 3dfx video. They fought me tooth and nail over it but I kept demanding one and they finally capitulated and I got it. For a long long time I had 1 single share of 3Dfx/3dfx and kept the stock certificate for it, that was quite difficult to acquire even though I was technically a share holder. Im adding GLIDE to my 3d class libraries.
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Most DOS 3Dfx games would look for this in their own directory, and would load it at runtime to use the installed 3Dfx card (there were a few early exceptions which built their 3Dfx support in).
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Might just have to do that sometime soon, actually, could make some neat Christmas presents. The 3Dfx DOS drivers include a DOS/4G overlay, GLIDE2X.OVL, which provides the implementation of Glide appropriate for the card they drive. I figure I should just use the higher quality 3Dfx logo splash I have and get some mouse pad maker like to make one for me, or several as I do tend to wear them out every few months. I really wanted to get one of those 3Dfx mouse pads, I looked for one on eBay and other places for the better part of a decade, put out feelers on craigslist, Reddit, many many places but have never been able to find one.