Comments on: ATI Assimilated

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Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:04:15 +0000

Time to scavenge those ATI logos and other wares ;)

By:

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:45:25 +0000

ATi is dead. In little less than 2 years, no more discrete cards from them. SO, who exactly is left to offer up the real competition for NVidia? Noone that’s who.

Say goodbye to ‘X done in-hardware’ computing and hello to the new age of ‘hardware-assisted’… but if you’ve been paying attention then you’ve already noticed this w/ scsi>ata and fixed-TNL>’GeePeeYew’.

It’s a ‘this feature done-in-software’ world, because it makes more business sense (makes THEM more $), not because it’s better.

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By:

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:29:03 +0000

Windows are where games are played.

But if you to get work done, you’re fucked.

By: Logy

Logy — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:24:18 +0000

How the hell did I post that reply in this thread?

Oh, yeah… I’m a moron.

By: Logy

Logy — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:22:04 +0000

[q]In the beginning there was Loki. They were cool, but they went out of business.

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Then there’s CrossOver Linux. I got Worlds of Warcraft to work on that! Yay!

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But then there’s Cedega. I couldn’t get Worlds of Warcraft to work on that! Boo!

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So if you want to play Windows games, buy Windows!
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I actually agree on what I guess was the only point of the article: If you want to play Windows games, install Windows.

But the article should have been titled “Why Gaming Sucks On Linux if You Want to Play Worlds of Warcraft”. It was so content-free that if it was food, it would be styrofoam peanuts.

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Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:14:03 +0000

AMD and even Intel are very Linux oriented companies
they both trying to get the best support of their platform in Linux. AMD is even researching last months on XEN Linux virtualisation systems to get new AMD processors better support of it. So I have good hope that AMD will have good influence on ATI, and their bad politics in support for Linux.

By: DGilbert

DGilbert — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:33:39 +0000

I really hope that they do keep (make) things open, at the very least make comprehensive documentation available.

By: Svartalf_

Svartalf_ — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:33:42 +0000

They’ve had the changes on both of their websites since about Wednesday of last week…

Ah, well, can’t have everything… Like you said, though, I hope they mean to keep the Open claim truthful and open up the tech a little more or do at least like Intel and offer up a mostly open driver with only things like Macrovision control being proprietary… Would be nice.