February 22, 2001

10:22 AM

GeForce 3to be available on Macs first. Check out the 3rd video down. Bonus: A look at the new ID 3D engine for Doom. High drool factor.
posted by john (5 comments total)

See, for instance, this.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 12:31 PM on February 22, 2001

Seems this is an Nvidia thread rather than a Mac thread.

Mac bad. Nvidia good.

I'm drooling over those graphics. Going to be a while until I upgrade my PC (with a TNT card) but I can only dream about what desktop graphics will be like in five years.

I've been a fan of id Software since the Doom days and that's the first time I've ever heard Carmack's voice.

I should have expected it but it was still a surprise.




posted by bondcliff at 2:08 PM on February 22, 2001

Yeah, Steven I looked at that link, but not the whole thread. I probably should have just added to that thread. Really I don't care about the Mac portion, I just wanted to post the ID stuff. I'm a 3D nut.
posted by john at 4:16 PM on February 22, 2001

Yeah, the new Doom engine looks awesome. I would still put Doom2 on the top of game list. Playing that with White Zombie's Astrocreep2000 CD in the background was the ultimate in spooky gaming, and I think I even recognized at least one of the levels in that short little clip.
posted by howa2396 at 9:30 PM on February 22, 2001

I wonder how much apple payed nvidia off to release the GF3 for macs first.....and I wonder how much money apple spends each year on advertising in movies......
posted by grank at 12:54 PM on February 23, 2001