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	Glide API - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glide was a proprietary 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx used on their Voodoo graphics cards.
		Glide is based on the basic geometry and "world view" of OpenGL.
		Today old Glide supporting games can often be run on modern graphics cards with help of a Glide wrapper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glide_API (444 words)

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		The Glide Library is a low-level rendering and state management sub-routine library that serves as a thin layer over the register level int erface of the Voodoo Graphics family of graphics hardware.
		Glide only implements operations that are natively supported by the V oodoo Graphics family of graphics hardware.
		Glide computes the signed area of a triangle prior to rendering, and the sign of this area can be used for backface culling operations.
	www.gamers.org /dEngine/xf3D/glide/glideref.txt (16372 words)

	DRI Wiki - Glide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glide only works with Voodoo based 3D cards and in many ways it is very similar to OpenGL.
		Glide will turn off drawing in the X server and grab the lock and never let it go.
		There's about 50 calls from Glide we use and those aren't simple, but it might be a good project for a few people to tackle.
	dri.freedesktop.org /wiki/Glide (391 words)

	What is a Glide Wrapper?
		I remember earlier people asking about technical overviews of what a Glide wrapper is. I figure that I'll provide the high level aspect as well as a low level aspect in one article.
		Glide is 3Dfx's attempt to control the market and make everyone pick up a Voodoo or Banshee series of cards.
		SGI's (OpenGL) is the most cross platform compatible API; the API of choice for Carmack and hence the API of choice for many developers.
	www.glideunderground.com /articles/Article_WhatisaGlideWrapper.html (3364 words)

	Linux.com - The Linux 3Dfx HOWTO: FAQ: Glide? TexUS?
		Glide is provided as binary only, and you should neither use nor distribute any files but the ones released to the public, if you have not signed an NDA.
		Glide is a proprietary API that is partly similar to OpenGL or Mesa, partly contains features only available as EXTensions to some OpenGL implementations, and partly contains features not available anywhere but within Glide.
		There is also a Glide 3.0 in preparation that will extend the API for use of triangle fans and triangle strips, and provide better state change optimization.
	www.linux.com /howtos/3Dfx-HOWTO-7.shtml (1343 words)

	I guess this means nVidia will not be supporting glide. - BeyondUnreal Forums
		Only reason UT runs "better" in glide (which I think is a load of horse** - OpenGl and S3TC on my GeForce runs and looks a hell of better than my previous voodoo card) is becuase the original Unreal game was developed for glide** as it was the only thing around at the time.
		The first thing they worry about is the fact that while NVidia cards can be made to use the Glide API (as was seen with Creative's Glide wrapper for the TNT2's), they wouldn't perform as well as a Voodoo card simply because 3DFx optimized their cards for Glide.
		Glide always was a proprietory API, which means that it was meant only for 3DFx's use.
	forums.beyondunreal.com /showthread.php?t=34832 (1064 words)

	Glide Opens Wide
		But what is most interesting about 3dfx Interactive's latest direction is less their move to open source the Glide API, and more their determination to regain their previous status as a premier provider of graphics cards.
		And, yes, the open sourcing of the Glide API has resulted in a reversal of sorts on the Glide wrapper question [4], with an emphasis on "of sorts".
		Glide was a fine, lower-level API when it was initially released for Voodoo Graphics back in 1996, and proved a sound strategy to get developers using some of the then-new 3D features available through 3dfx Interactive.
	www.linuxjournal.com /node/5397/print (844 words)

	Glide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glide is a musical synthesizer parameter, equivalent to portamento
		Glide is another word for semivowel in linguistics
		Glide is a song by the jam band Phish from their 1992 album A Picture of Nectar
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glide (120 words)

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		A GGI driver for Glide is under development by Jon M. Taylor, but has not officially been released and was put on hold till completion of GGI 0.0.9.
		No, Glide is a proprietary 3Dfx API which several features specific to the Voodoo Graphics (tm) and Voodoo Rush (tm).
		If you are running X when calling a Glide application, you probably moved the mouse out of the window, and the keyboard inputs do not reach the application anymore.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/nexus/5/kernel/3dfx.txt (9792 words)

	Native Api's... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The advantage is that they only have to program one version of their game and it will work on all hardware.
		A games company can not afford to make a Glide only version anymore because all the other 3D card owners will be left in the dark.
		But now this situation is changed, there is a lot of competition and they are more than worth the support and the General API's have grown and will be the solution of the Future.
	www.ping.be /~pin10741/GlideSupport.htm (575 words)

	Review: ASUS AGP-V3200 Voodoo Banshee graphics card
		Cheap 3Dfx boards are a good choice for the impecunious gamer, because they support 3Dfx's proprietary Glide API, which is supported by pretty much every 3D game in the world, even the older ones.
		Gamma adjustment works by changing the brightness of pixels according to how bright they currently are - the closer a pixel is to the extremes (fl and white) the less it's changed, with the largest changes for pixels at the 50% grey level.
		Glide: 3DFX's native 3D graphics standard, as used by the Voodoo cards of all flavours.
	www.dansdata.com /V3200.htm (1566 words)

	Readme for zeckensack's Glide wrapper
		This is a Glide wrapper, ie a library that emulates the programming interface for 3dfx Voodoo hardware and in turn allows games specifically coded for it to run on other vendors' graphics cards.
		Glide games can set their preferred refresh rates themselves, and you can have the glide wrapper try that by selecting "default (by app)" here.
		GLIDOS comes packaged with a different Glide wrapper and it may be safer to just use that.
	www.zeckensack.de /glide/readme.htm (7775 words)

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		Glide 2.3 (and all previous versions of Glide) is mutually exclusive with Microsoft Direct3D; Glide applications can not run simultaneously with D3D applications.
		Previous versions of Win32 Glide were designed around the pass through architecture which was unable to render into a window and shared no display resources with the underlyi ng operating system.
		Glide 2.3 may execute in exactly one thread in a system at a time.
	www.gamers.org /dEngine/xf3D/glide/gpguide.htm (2554 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glide is a 3D API from 3Dfx Inc. designed for maximize performance of 3Dfx Voodoo series 3D accelerators.
		GlideMem is an C++ API for managing texture memory allocation for 3Dfx.
		Since 3Dfx API doesn't provide a high level interface for that thing (you can only load texture to a certain address but can't free it).
	www.falconfly.de /info/readme-glidemem.txt (477 words)

	GameDev.net - Direct3D vs. OpenGL: Which API to Use When, Where, and Why
		(As an interesting side note, the API was submitted by the creators as a college project and flunked for having deviated from the assignment somewhat.) They integrated it into their own sort of mini-Graphics Library known as the Game SDK.
		On every game you play that uses Glide, you will read, "Do not use Glide unless you have a Voodoo graphics card, or another graphics card with a 3dfx chipset." I have not used Glide myself, but I am told that programming in Glide is a great pleasure.
		Using an API that only targets an audience that is rapidly shrinking really is not a good idea.
	www.gamedev.net /reference/articles/article1775.asp (5616 words)

	Zophar's Domain: Glide Wrappers
		This is a glide wrapper that will give you glide support with any Direct 3D compatible video card.
		This is a glide wrapper based on the Gl2IDE Revision A sources...it includes both the DLL and the source.
		The next generation of glide wrappers, this emulates the programming interface for 3dfx Voodoo hardware, Glide 2.4 API, to be precise.
	www.zophar.net /utilities/glidewrapper.html (296 words)

	Loren Petrich's Tomb Raider Page
		Glide: this one was the last surviving 3D-card-specific API, being for 3dfx cards; I use the past tense, because 3dfx has now disappeared into Nvidia.
		There had been several such API's in the late 1990's, when consumer-model 3D cards started appearing; however, programmers have preferred to use generic ones that can work on several kinds of cards, thus the demise of such API's.
		However, the only Mac Glide wrapper known to me is an old MacOS X one that some Omni Group developer had ported.
	homepage.mac.com /lpetrich/www/games/tombraider/tombraider.html (1924 words)

	Glide Opens Wide \| Linux Journal
		And, yes, the open sourcing of the Glide API has resulted in a reversal of sorts on the Glide wrapper question, with an emphasis on "of sorts".
		While 3dfx mentions in a Glide FAQ the use of Glide wrappers to enable Glide to be compatible with other chip sets, they mention earlier that the open sourcing of the Glide API has no consequence on their pending
		For the initiate, the OpenGL is "premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications." Introduced in 1992, the OpenGL has garnered broad industry support and represents the only open, vendor-neutral, multi-platform graphics standard.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article/5397 (888 words)

	Voodoo2 vs. TNT2. - BeyondUnreal Forums
		if you don't run glide based games, then a tnt2 or tnt2 ultra is the choice.
		the voodoo4 and 5 will be able to run in all api's (d3d, glide and opengl) remember.
		3dfx made the api glide, so no other card on the market will run glide, only a voodoo based card.
	forums.beyondunreal.com /showthread.php?t=6824 (580 words)

	Walk Into Wall. Bleed. Repeat. · PlanetCrap 6.0
		Glide vs D3D = HUGE difference, and one that shouldn't be ignored (as Andy does so elegantly in his topic).
		At the time, coding your entire engine for Glide seemed to be a good idea, since there wasn't any other vialble API around.
		Designing for that API automatically limits your target audience and makes it complicated to "reverse engineer" the core rendering engine to work with other APIs...thus the problems nVidia owners are currently seeing with UT-based games in D3D.
	planetcrap.com /topics/137 (4936 words)

	Need for Speed 3/4 how-to
		I've used them to test/compare D3D and Glide mode using your Glide Wrapper on my Radeon 9600, and/or with original Glide on a Voodoo3.
		At this time, this procedure takes far more effort than just using the INF files to switch between modes, though it does have the advantage of working within the process of the games natural video card detection and configuration process that end users might expect to use (3D Setup).
		I may write a little utility that makes all the necessary registry and game settings changes and adjustments so users can run the 3D Setup utility to both specifically detect their modern card, and, choose between the two modes.
	www.zeckensack.de /glide/nfsfix/index.html (1107 words)

	VoodooUsers \| Troubleshooting - API specific
		When using an API, standard commands can be used which means there is no need to re-invented the wheel each time.
		Also, an API makes it easier to write programs that are compatible across different platforms.
		Glide used to be a 3dfx only API.
	www.xs4all.nl /~jfeelder/voodoousers/troubleapi.html (1829 words)

	MW2 3D - 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics Edition
		The reality is that MW2 was one of the first games ported to Glide and therefore uses a very early version of that API (1.x).
		Games written for early versions of Glide seem usually have problems running on a Banshee and [especially] the V3, unless they are patched by the software developer and no patch was ever released.
		It couldn't hurt to try a Glide wrapper, though I haven't had ANY luck with them personally.
	www.geocities.com /k_lupinsky/3Dfx.htm (1711 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - Hynix pushes DDR-I to 500MHz
		Dont you remember, GLide was prop to 3DFX, obviously it did'nt support lastest hardware, it was ONLY supported by 3DFX.
		When NV30 comes out were all buying it anyway, so why not have a proprietary API if we can all use it anyway, sounds good to me. And if a game does'nt support it, OGL is there for us (I dont think they'll drop OGL in place of only GLide support, 3DFX did'nt).
		Though i'm inclined to agree that an upgraded ver of glide would be a big hurrah for the gaming community.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2002Dec/bch20021211017723.htm (1058 words)

	I want to learn 3Dfx OpenGL - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
		The Glide API will take care of initializing whatever it needs under the hood.
		Also, if you're using Glide thats all you'll be using, no GL at all.
		Not much point in learning Glide now as it died along with the company.
	www.gamedev.net /community/Forums/topic.asp?topic_id=324799 (729 words)

	Linux.com Article DB: 3dfx news - 1/1
		Although the move has made it easier for current developers, it's quite obvious that it was targeted towards the Linux community, bringing their developers closer to 3dfx based games on the market.
		The Glide API and all 3dfx hardware specifications were made public some time ago and can be found at http://linux.3dfx.com.
		They are thrilled with the Glide API and are quite pleased with the progress they have made on their projects.
	linux.omnipotent.net /article.php?article_id=6501 (350 words)

	FreeSpace Watch - Part of the Volition Watch Network
		FreeSpace requires a 3D accelerator that supports either a Glide or D3D API.
		A high-speed 3D card and extra RAM will take the strain off your processor and will result in better performance.
		The debate between the Glide and Direct3D APIs should no longer be such a major issue (for those who have not used these FreeSpace Direct3D registry tweaks), as FreeSpace 2 supports Direct3D at the same level as Glide.
	freespace.volitionwatch.com /editorials/11-21-99.shtml (1402 words)

	WinGlide FAQ
		A limitation in the Glide API when SLI mode is in use presents a major problem for my optimized versions of WinGlide.
		If you want to run a recent version of WinGlide with an SLI system and there is an easy way to temporarily disable SLI (such as an environment variable or a checkbox on a display settings tab), you should do this and only run with a single card when using WinGlide.
		When using the Glide API to read frames back from a 3dfx card, there is a limitation that is present when SLI mode is in use.
	cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com /winglide/faq.html (1766 words)

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