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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Mar 2006 18:54 UTC, submitted by Nicholas Blachford

"3D acceleration is a long established standard part of today's systems yet it started life as an exotic, expensive add on. Last year Ageia announced a new kind of add on, their PhysX chip is a new technology specifically designed for accelerating physics processing in games. Why should a physics chip interest gamers? What does it do? How does it work?"

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Open-source

by Knuckles on Thu 16th Mar 2006 20:41 UTC

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2005-06-29

But will it support linux and other open-source os's? Or is it just one more thing helping microsoft keep it's desktop empire?

Most people I know have at least one problematic piece of hardware. It's not the oss community's fault, they are the cure, the problem are manufacturers that just outright don't give a damn...

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RE: Open-source

by agentj on Thu 16th Mar 2006 21:07 in reply to "Open-source"

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2005-08-19

Microsoft provides stable API (DirectX) for creation of games. I don't care if they're going to provide source code, if API is well documented and supported, people will use it. I don't think commercial game developers care about openess of the API.

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RE[2]: Open-source

by fithisux on Thu 16th Mar 2006 21:37 in reply to "RE: Open-source"

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2006-01-22

Speak for yourself my friend. Here in N.T.U.A. we have a very big problems with closed APIs. We wanted to buy a network PTZ camera and rejected about 10 candidate cameras, until we end to the AXIS 213 PTZ. Open and useful. Closed source ? Useless, how about your printer not supported in Vista, because some has closed specs and APIs in a proprietary driver in XP?

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RE: Open-source

by pcbsdusr on Thu 16th Mar 2006 23:51 in reply to "Open-source"

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2006-01-23

It's up to us consumers to support those that care. And it wouldn't be a bad idea to show our appreciation in a more public way.

"If you scratch my back i'll scrach yours" would probably help.

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