Glide Wrapper

[Trance]

Does anyone know where I can get a glide wrapper for DOS?

I need one so that I can play carmageddon and splat pack in high resolution.

[Hunsow]

Do some thinking, such a thing can not exist.

[noackjr]

For those of you who aren't getting this (like I didn't for a while until it dawned on me), a wrapper converts the Glide instructions into DirectX or OpenGL instructions. However, I know DirectX isn't supported in DOS and I haven't seen any OpenGL Dos drivers for Matrox cards, so even if an OpenGL solution existed, you wouldn't be able to use it.

Jon

[jtracy]

I know that in the early days of 3D gaming (Voodoo Rush era?), before GLide wrappers, there was a "3dFX emulator" that someone wrote which translates 3DFX to software mode. I have no idea wether it worked or not (never tried it), but it was a DOS exe, and it was simply called "3DFX Emulator".

Good luck finding it, though.

[Bohrn]

I'm surprised that no one has written a good wrapper for DX6 and up or OGL, now that the glide source code is availiable. I figured there would be a bucketful for d/ling and we would have wars over each person's fav. Ala
Q3/UT. Well, maybe soon...

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[Thomaspo]

I have found the link to the £dfx Dos software emulator - I have no idea hether it works - why not try it and find out!

http://www.alcavia.net/atalaska/emula/3dfx.htm

[KoalaBear33]

How about a glide wrapper for Windows? I am looking for something that would speed up Ultima Ascension. I really doubt if a glide wrapper will help since UA uses too many textures and D3D (and likely OpenGL as well) can't handle that much

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[jtracy]

The best Glide wrapper is XGL. IT was made buy a guy who has a G200, so it will definitely be the most stable for a Matrox user. But there's not much you can do to make U9 better. The people who made that game really blew it when it comes to speed and stability.

[impact]

Nah, it works flawlessly and fast even on a Voodoo 2. It's just the D3D mode that blows...

[impact]

ooops, forgot, for glide wrappers, go to http://www.top-25.com/emu/index.html and browse the sites. There are lots of emulators that were made glide-only, so the community has a lot of glide wrappers avaiable. It might be a long search, tho.