Quoting: CatKillerThe PPUs definitely existed. I doubt that many got sold, because the business case for them was rubbish, but you could get pre-built gaming machines with them in. The technology was also in a bunch of console games before Nvidia bought Ageia.

I googled and found some... on Geocities. (So that's the age we're talking about. :D )

http://www.geocities.ws/nagaty_h/hardware/asus_physx_p1.htm [External Link]

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Quoting: whizseAdventure gamers! Don't miss Season of the Warlock [External Link]. Proton demo only, but the full game should (hopefully) be native.

I've seen a test version of the demo, and it's working well on Linux, so be optimistic!

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Quoting: CatKillerHmm. My little one loves machines and loves puzzles. Showing a five year old how to pick locks couldn't possibly have negative future consequences, right?

What could possibly go wrong?!? :heart:

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Quoting: furaxhornyxI was going to reply "technical debt" as well, but from now on, "historisch gewachsen" might become my new favorite :grin:

:heart:

Not easy to pronounce if you're non-native speakers though, I guess. :D

PS, @Liam: I hope you don't mind the OT talk. I sometimes like some semi-OT international exchange...

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Quoting: HoriYou germans have words or terms for literally anything :)) I love it

:)

I would not bet all my money that everybody understands this term like this, though.

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Quoting: tuubiLegacy baggage and technical debt are related (and depressing) terms that spring to mind.

I like "Legacy baggage"!
(I always take this with a bit of understanding/sympathy - it's not like I haven't produced similar baggages... ;) )

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Quoting: CatKillerYeah, OpenGL was driven by the needs of CAD software when programs were single-threaded and hardware was a fixed-function rendering pipeline. Modern software and hardware aren't really like that at all.

There's an interesting set of articles [External Link] from one of the PowerVR people that describes how Vulkan does things differently to OpenGL.

I don't know if there's something like "historisch gewachsen" in English. "Historically developed" would be the literal translation, used in the meaning of it's old, many people had their hands on it, it served many purposes, maybe there's even people missing that understand it fully due to its complexity, ... Some day, such software has to be (slowly) replaced.

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Quoting: fagnerlnZink is a nice project, but it looks like a proof of concept than anything else.

I mean, OGL is by far the most supported API, looks like nowadays is not that hard to implement it on hardware.

From what CatKiller linked (I guessed so, but they do know): "One problem is that OpenGL is a big API with a lot of legacy stuff that has accumulated since its initial release in 1992."

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Quoting: MisterPaytwickI tought I was done with Kalypso because of past experience.

Well, guess I'll add it back to my list of companies I can buy from.

I only remember that they didn't release Urban Empires (I think that was the game) for Linux. But reviews for it were not kind...

So they actually spared us this one? ;-)

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Quoting: edoHow is performance doing? Is it faster?

Guess we'll find out, but https://www.supergoodcode.com/hhhhhhhhhhhhhh/ [External Link]

Holy Big Triangle in heaven!
(They really need to get into metric measurement, though.)

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