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7 Sep 2024 11:22:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The classics never get old  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 5 Aug 2008 14:08:13
Message: <4898970d$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   Quake2 was one of the first games to fully utilize hardware acceleration
> (at a time where Quake was still played in software mode and even Half-Life,
> unveiled at the same E3, had an *optional* hardware acceleration mode, the
> default being a software renderer).

Hmm, that's interesting... I thought Halflife was released significantly 
*after* Quake 2? (And I'm told it runs on a "heavily modified" Quake 2 
game engine too - which would seem to require it being much newer than 
Quake 2 itself...)

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