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Re:The history of the modern graphics processor by dualogy on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @12:40PM (#7811239)
> they enabled entire new genres of game

Such as? There have been great enjoyable DOS-based 3D games for a number of years ever since Wolfenstein so I'm curious what 'new genres' you're thinking of that the introduction of a 3D graphics processor enabled.. ;)

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Re:The history of the modern graphics processor by penguindev on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @08:18PM (#7813866)
Right. Even Unreal had software rendering (and looked damn good - water, sky, fog).
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