[geeks] Blender & Jashaka on IRIX

[Frank Van Damme]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:05, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Not a total surprise to me. The voodoo 3 is a pretty crippled card. I
> > mean, it still runs quake3 fast, but the texture size is limited to
> > 256*256 pixels etc.
>
> That wasn't the problem with voodoo3 (well, it was a problem, just not
> the main one).  I had been under the impression that Mesa fixed all the
> major problems that windows had with gl bugs, but boy was I wrong.  The
> display in blender kept loosing the tool area.

Are you sure it was Windows at fault? Some textures under the named video 
game were consistently freaky-colored over sessions. Not with my tnt2. 
Which is now in the closet in favor of a radeon 8500, which rocks and comes 
from a company that will release hardware specs at least. HA!

-- 
Frank