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		anthk on Aug 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy Yeah, I knew about that, so this it's just transcribing instead of translating. But I'd guess SGI machines (IRIX) being OpenGL bound (they invented it) the N64 would map the microcode to GL funcs much better.

bitwize on Aug 7, 2024 [–]

Glide was modelled after OpenGL, so I'm guessing the mapping was not that much of a stretch anyway.

rvnx on Aug 8, 2024 | [–]

and then you had to use an extra DLL that was essentially translating 3dfx calls to DirectX

anthk on Aug 8, 2024 | | [–]

That was later. NGlide for sure.

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