Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have this blog saved?

Posted on 2024-08-31, 19:02

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Yeah the regex has issues with files that have brackets in them, but it shouldn’t. Tbh I haven’t looked at that in any detail but will now. I’ve also found a few other issues with some of the external sites that were captured so I’ll tweak my code and have another crack at it. Keep letting me know …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have this blog saved?

Posted on 2024-08-31, 08:49

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Well after more effort than I should've put in I've got a copy of the site working and hosted on my own server at https://rogueone.uk/mirrors/asj/www.alexstjohn.com Search doesn't work (naturally as it's a static site) but most other parts should. I had to rewrite the categories dropdown, and the …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-08-02, 14:04

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Not having much luck with this I'm afraid. None of the viewer tools (WebRecorder or its replacement ReplayWeb.page) seem to support exporting - can't even find or load the page in the latter. Other tools I've tried for extracting the archive back to files are a mixed bag. Warcat is the most …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-30, 13:05

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BlackDoomer wrote on 2024-07-30, 11:37: Marvellous, thank you very much!! May I ask you to upload somewhere the unpacked pages as a regular ZIP archive? Dunno, first time I ever used webrecorder was this morning so I don’t know how easy it is to extract the content. I’ll have a play but no promises …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-30, 13:00

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I think it has something to do with this https://www.wired.com/2016/04/alex-st-johns-daughter-wrong-women-tech/ More than likely, just the timing seems odd. If he was going to try deleting himself from the web you’d have expected it at the time of the article (8 years ago), not for at least a year …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-30, 11:08

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Better save this somewhere. I don't know archive.com's rules, but maybe he can report it and get it deleted. I hate how it's possible to exclude publicly available sites from the wayback machine. It should not be allowed when the entire point of that site is internet information preservation. …

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-30, 06:51

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Yep, not quite as purged as he thought 😁 Attached opened with WebRecorder.

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-29, 15:21

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Although having said that, seems you can still download ~8.5GB of the raw web archive for the site here: https://archive.org/download/warc_www_alexstj … com-WP_20170612

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Re: Alex St.John's "DirectX Files" - does anyone have preserved this blog?

Posted on 2024-07-29, 15:10

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These have an archive of it apparently, but offline: https://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/resources/43 The recruiting giants presentation is easy enough to obtain but the rest will rely on someone having mirrored the site locally. The web is horribly transient, even sites that still …

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Re: What was the difference between '3dfxogl.dll', '3dfxvgl.dll' and '3dfxgl.dll'?

Posted on 2024-07-13, 07:33

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Oookay, but then I have a reverse question: why then 3dfxvgl.dll also exposes an ICD interface if it's a freestanding implementation and not an ICD? It provides a lot of exported functions with Drv* prefixes that comply with the ICD specification. Why not? All it then takes is a handful of registry …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2024-07-13, 07:02

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"RenderGL uses OpenGL to accelerate the rendering of complex images" so its just fancy name for openGL? Says that it’s a graphics library in the link: “In addition, Nichimen is licensing Intergraph’s RenderGL open graphics library to incorporate into future releases of its new Windows NT-based …

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2024-07-08, 19:54

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Keeping to just the hardware I've bought new: 1995 - Pentium 100 1997 - Pentium 166MMX (replaced former when it died) 1999 - Pentium 2 400Mhz 2000 - AMD Athlon (Slot A) 800Mhz 2001 - AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 1800+ (had to overclock FSB slightly to get stable on Abit mobo) 2004 - AMD Athlon XP …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 21:20

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I was in the industry at the time and was certainly shocked by the speed of the collapse, but not surprised. I'd had a Voodoo 1 and 2, but when it came time to pick my next graphics card at home the TNT2 appeared streets ahead of the Voodoo 3, if not in benchmarks (barely) then at least in terms of …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-02, 19:38

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Also bear in mind, all of Quake3's transforms and lighting are entirely software calculated (regardless of hardware - this is by design) https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1244747#p1244747 even GLQuake uses glTranslatef(); glRotatef(); glScalef(); and afaik those are automagically TnL powered …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 03:20

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I don't think it's entirely fair to say that Glide was just an attempt at gaining/maintaining a monopoly. At the release of the original Voodoo (and to a somewhat lesser degree the Voodoo II) the vendor agnostic APIs were a hot mess. Glide was a revelation in comparison and really served a …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 15:17

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Glide didn’t influence D3D or GL. GL existed well before glide. D3D (up to 11) and GL are higher level hardware agnostic interfaces which do a lot of grunt work for the developer (managing textures and other buffers in video memory etc) whereas glide, MeTaL, powerSGL et al. were all tied to specific …

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Re: Quake3 colorMipLevels LOD curiosity

Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:40

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Voodoo4 PCI screenshot for you.

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 08:56

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There are few STG4800 around the world in the hands of the collectors. And as far as I know it is just a 200 MHZ Kyro 2, nothing more - so it runs exactly the same as regular overclocked Kyro 2. IIRC samples were sent to reviewers so I’m not surprised some of them survived - these would likely have …

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-13, 07:38

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Never released? Could've sworn the last Kyro2 drivers had the SW T&L in there. Giants recognized a HW T&L D3D rendering device after and bumpmapping worked. However it wasn't a stable feature and some games that required it crashed instead and the drivers did have registry keys to disable it on a …

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Re: why did the voodoo 4 and 5 dont have hardware support for T&L

Posted on 2024-04-12, 10:20

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3dfx did not see the change in the appearance of T&L, but to their credit it can be said that they were not the only ones. Other companies besides 3dfx were also left behind for not being able to keep up with Nvidia and Ati. The PowerVR Kyro cards could have been good contenders if they had true HW …

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