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Gldirect v5.0.2 released as freeware!

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First post, by DosFreak

Posted on 2007-06-11, 12:12

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http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/gld/

Dear User, […]
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Dear User,

The SciTech GLDirect product has been discontinued, and the source
code is in the process of being submitted to the Open Source Mesa
project. There will no longer be any future versions of GLDirect
available from SciTech.

If you would like to continue to use the latest 5.0.2 release on
your computer, please use the following free registration code to
unlock the product:

Name: Free Code
Code: 1C10-0485-A489-E2

Please enter the code exactly as shown above (including case).

Notice the part I bolded? 😀

http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/gld_home.php

SciTech GLDirect is the utility package for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP that combines the power of the OpenGL API with the wide availability of Direct3D hardware drivers. It accomplishes this by enabling OpenGL based games and applications to access 3D hardware acceleration through the Direct3D drivers provided by your graphics hardware manufacturer. The OpenGL API is the cross-platform, high performance standard for 3D graphics applications.

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Reply 1 of 9, by WolverineDK

Posted on 2007-06-11, 19:15

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Awesome DosFreak. And yeah I noticed what you bolded 😀 the future looks bright 😀

Reply 2 of 9, by Dominus

Posted on 2007-06-11, 21:37

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yeah, cool. Though I remember that there was a bug in the 3.x version way back when I still used my Voodoo5. I contacted the Scitech people but ultimately nothing came out of it, soonish they released version 4, the bug was still in and I gave up and forgot everything about it. I even forgot what it was about 😀
I *think* I wrote it on their usenet server but, well, anyway... 😀

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Reply 3 of 9, by leileilol

Posted on 2007-06-12, 03:43

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this is amazing, especially for my laptop's trident chipset. thank you scitech!

(and rerelease that freeware display doctor stuff again like you did in 04 for a limited time 🙁 )

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Reply 4 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2007-06-12, 09:55

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But what does it exactly do? use D3D calls to run OpenGL applications? wouldn't that be slower?

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Reply 5 of 9, by dh4rm4

Posted on 2007-06-12, 10:27

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Speed isn't the issue in this case. The app allow OGL support for chipsets that only offer D3D as is the case with many older budget level OEM integrated VGAs on laptops.

Reply 6 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2007-06-12, 10:34

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Now I get it. Thank you for the clarification.

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Reply 7 of 9, by 5u3

Posted on 2007-06-12, 10:41

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leileilol wrote:
(and rerelease that freeware display doctor stuff again like you did in 04 for a limited time 🙁 )

Scitech Display Doctor and UniVBE are still available on their FTP server:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/

Reply 8 of 9, by leileilol

Posted on 2007-06-12, 14:57

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hmm wierd, last time i checked last year it was still shareware and they didn't point out those regcodes. weird.

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Reply 9 of 9, by franpa

Posted on 2007-06-13, 08:55

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its been there forever, its just that its on there FTP and isnt mentioned on there site, or if it is it is mentioned in a obscure place.

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