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/ Adam Richardson

3Dfx Announces Glide 3.0

3Dfx Interactive announced Glide 3.0, the next-generation version of its low-level software interface that enables complete control of its Voodoo family of 3D graphics chips.

The hardware race keeps getting louder. 3Dfx Interactive announced Glide 3.0, the next-generation version of its low-level software interface that enables complete control of its Voodoo family of 3D graphics chips for consumer entertainment. Glide can serve as the primary application program interface (API) or may work in conjunction with another API to enable optimal acceleration on 3Dfx hardware.

Unlike other APIs, Glide is designed specifically and only for 3Dfx hardware and allows full, unconstrained access to all the technical capabilities of Voodoo chips without requiring assembly language or register programming. Currently there are in excess of 100 available games using Glide and over 250 more in development.