Reply 20 of 33, by midicollector
Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-10-28, 01:56:midicollector wrote on 2023-10-28, 01:35:The universal apis like direct x and OpenGL really came later, at the time the voodoo 1 came out, it was all proprietary apis still, with the voodoo actually being a classic example of a proprietary api.
Direct3D was released in 1996 (the same year the Voodoo Graphics card came out) but it didn't reach maturity until DirectX 7 and OpenGL existed long way before consumer hardware started to support it fully, which initially began with MiniGL drivers thanks to GLQuake.
That's very true, I just meant that the Voodoo 1 was originally all about Glide, support for other things came later.