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3dfx 联合创始人:Quake 助力显卡销售数百万

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Oct 23
  1. PC Gamer
    3dfx Cofounder Credits Quake for 'Millions' of Boards Sold: 'It Was Magnificent'

    3dfx cofounder Ross Smith told Club386 that Quake deserves "a great deal of credit" for the company's overall success, saying 3dfx probably sold millions of boards because of the game. Quake launched in June 1996 but only got GLQuake, which enabled 3D hardware acceleration, in early 1997; John Carmack reportedly reached out to 3dfx, which built the MiniGL API to run it. Smith also said 3dfx courted developers by showing games pre-rendered on Voodoo cards, unlike firms such as S3 that treated developers as a necessary evil.

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