It's 2022: Linux Open-Source GPU Drivers Seeing 3dfx Glide API Support

[Quackdoc]

If it manages to mature, I can see this being a good open source alternative to dgVoodoo (on Linux and Mesa drivers at least).

Is running it on Windows (or the proprietary NVIDIA driver) technically possible? I assume the latter is very unlikely, but what about the former?

yes, we have zink and d3d12 drivers. assuming it compiles for windows it should be usable

[Calinou]

If it manages to mature, I can see this being a good open source alternative to dgVoodoo (on Linux and Mesa drivers at least).

Is running it on Windows (or the proprietary NVIDIA driver) technically possible? I assume the latter is very unlikely, but what about the former?

[SkyWarrior]

What if i want to play a Glide game on my GL 2.1 gpu with Crocus?

Damn! You found my weak spot

[mangeek]

[Leopard]

Other than native glide games this won't do any good. For Wine side I suggest everyone to try nGlide. Use vulkan backend and all is done perfectly. I am playing most of my 3dfx supported titles with nGlide and vulkan.

What if i want to play a Glide game on my GL 2.1 gpu with Crocus?

[Almindor]

I remember playing Myth: TFL on my original Voodoo 2 card. Then later I got some openGL/direct3d card and had to switch the backend in the game and it looked UGLY. I wonder if that kind of difference will be visible through emulators/wine.

[doomie]

Whoa, Pandemonium... it's been a while.

[Quackdoc]

The usual open source achievements nobody asked for.

That's where you are wrong, I know a decent chunk of people wanting this. Not only will this be great for wine retro gamers, but also because currently the only good glide wrappers are proprietary, this will be super nice for me when paired with qemu-3dfx, as performance is pretty good with it. qemu-3dfx is already the best way to play wine 9x-winxp games for a lot of cases. performance in it smokes the competitors.

overall this will make myself really happy, and a few other people aswell

[baka0815]

I knew I heard the name somewhere - linkmauve is also a citra and dolphin contributor.
Some people have too much freetime - and I'm very grateful to them!

[microcode]

Mesa Glide on Zink would be fun.