> Well, without a 3D card, there's no texture filtering, and no coloured
> lighting. And with a 233 MHz Pentium I with MMX technology, you had to
> turn the resolution down fairly far to get sane frame rates. So running
> at something like 640x480 with a boarder (remember that feature?), the
> display was *very* grainy.

I think I had a P166 with 16MB RAM ... and then I bought a 3Dfx card for it.

> (Remember Glide?)

It's where I learned 3D graphics programming :-) The separate cards for 
2D/3D was actually really useful, as it allowed me to have a TWO SCREEN 
setup! IIRC if you didn't open a full-screen window in your program, you 
could still use the 2D Windows interface at the same time the 3D was 
running on the 3Dfx card. Useful for debugging or providing some simple 
Windows-based UI for controlling the 3D.

> Quake II is also the only game I've ever made a map for.

I was a Duke Nukem guy rather than Quake II, I used to waste my summer 
holidays with my sister over serial link on that. When we got bored we 
made maps - mine were usually full of hidden tunnels and secret ambush 
points :-) The editor was very buggy though, and would periodically get 
completely corrupted and you'd end up with several walls going through 
the middle of all your rooms and extending 32km into the distance. That 
was a sure sign it was about to crash and you better reload the last 
backup (or the one before that...).

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