Creative releases beta version of Unified

Creative releases beta version of Unified is the latest item crossing the POCG news desk. Creative Technology, the renowned innovator of market-leading multimedia solutions for personal entertainment, announced a beta version of Unified, a new technology for use in conjunction with its award-winning line of Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT graphics accelerators.

This new technology allows the limited number of remaining GLIDE only legacy games to run on Creative’s Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT line of products. Subsequent releases of Unified are expected to support the entire line of Creative’s upcoming graphics cards. The Unified technology announced today consists of two parts: (1) a software layer that translates GLIDE calls into the corresponding commands in Microsoft’s broadly supported Direct3D API and, (2) a specification of extensions that go beyond Glide’s current limited capabilities to support the more advanced hardware architecture offered by Creative’s Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT.