Glide™

3dfx's Glide™ API offers developers the most direct, high performance access to 3dfx's award winning Voodoo based 3D accelerators.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OR SUPPORT, EITHER FROM 3DFX OR FROM OMNI.

More information about this software can be obtained on Omni Development's Glide™ page.

Requirements

This software requires Mac OS X Server for PowerPC and a Voodoo2 3D accelerator. This port has been tested with older G3 machines and with new Blue&White machines. Other hardware might work, but hasn't been tested.

Installation

You must install the Glide™ package as the system administrator (root), since it installs system drivers to talk to your Voodoo2 card. To install, unpack the .tar file to create a Glide.mpkg package (this happens automatically if you have OpenUp installed), then double-click on the package to install it.

Once you have finished the installation, reboot your machine.

Resources

You can send feedback about this Glide™ port to Omni at glide-port@omnigroup.com, but once again, please note that there is absolutely no support for this driver.

Should you need assistance, you may find it on one the following mailing lists:

MacOSX-dev

Technical discussions of interest to Mac OS X developers.

If you have questions about developing software using Glide™ under Mac OS X Server, this is the place to ask them.

MacOSX-admin

Technical questions and discussions about Mac OS X system administration.

If you're having trouble installing or using this port of Glide™, try this list.

MacOSX-talk

General discussions of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.

Any other questions or comments about Glide™ would be appropriate on this list.

If there is enough interest in Glide™-specific issues, we will create a separate mailing list dedicated to it.