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The 3DHQ site and members.........
17.10.05 at 08:21:21
 
Cleaning out my server and had a couple of beta drivers from 3DHQ that I got rid of (except beta 10) and I'm wondering if anyone knows what ever happened to some of the guys from over there (Devo, Koolsmokey, Devin Phillips, and Aquouess for example). I know Kool is still working on drivers, well at least the Glide 3.X stuff (well was at any rate. Haven't talked to Devo in a longgggg time so have no clue what he's been up to). Besides this site, it was the only other 3dfx site I used to go to until everything went down hill over there (I think part of the reason for the down fall was people were nailing them about the drivers that they were putting out, which I thought they did a pretty good job at especially with the help they were getting which wasn't much- not fast enough or something, don't quite remember).

Guess I'm just wondering if anyone from there has kept up with anything that is 3dfx or if they got burnt out enough to just threw in the towel for good. Just wondering, don't know if any of you went there has well or kept in touch with anybody but would like to know if you did, that's all. Thanks.
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Reply #1 - 17.10.05 at 15:39:02
 
Hm, I don't think I have all the old EMails and other stuff anymore (these questions were discussed several times in the past)

Devin Phillips aka "Devo", for all I know, simply vanished after the soap opera style catastrophic failure and a last, pathetic guesture on their Website, when it was on its last leg.
Will likely be remembered as probably the wrongest person one could possibly put in place to manage anything concerning public relations (made for alot of fun reading, though).
Never really had any serious personal contact with him.

Koolsmokey AFAIK continued a while on the DirectX Core and then reverted to work on Glide. Now still has a small space hosted on 3dfxzone.it, but I'm unsure of any recent developments there.
I've lost track of him a long time ago, last event occured via AmigaMerlin and was concerning the 3dfxgamers plagiats and respective countermeasures. Sure did a hell lot of great and groundbreaking work for 3dfx and was one of 3dHQ's only capable, actual programmers (I think Colourless got in the loop for a short while as well, not sure).

Aquouess opted for a (more or less) clean getaway after he was identified as a faker beyond doubt. From what I heard was *cough* rather quickly recovering from that "deadly disease". His person and his abuse of trust people had in his supposed capabilities certainly contributed to 3dHQ's structural failure. Being never able to deliver, yet was found stating "It's already up & running, will be released soon" (Aniso Filtering and revamped OpenGL comes to mind), he simply bailed when he eventually saw it coming his way.
Extremely elusive and twisted person, I remember 3dHQ members themself often enough had troubles getting hold of him, let alone see any results of the work he claimed to do. Later found online using Messengers by other people and a few (context summarized) chats were put on the x-3dfx Forum. Known (to me) activities ceased only a few months after the failure, whereabouts unknown/not looked after ever since.

I'm not 100% positive who created "Revenge", but that dream bubble sure blew up nicely coinciding with 3dHQ's general failure.

Overall, 3dHQ's Drivers were .inf Mods, improved only by the (by that time already available) updated Glide Cores and Koolsmoky's first updated DirectX Core. For what that is worth, those were not bad Drivers though.

Some technical know-how that 3dHQ indeed managed to aquire by unverfied 3rd Party (likely a company) reportedly went to 3dfxzone sometime after 3dHQ's demise.

At least that's how I recall it, just bare in mind that's already quite a while back, so one or the other detail may have escaped me.
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Reply #2 - 17.10.05 at 19:11:20
 
..koolsmoky seems to be still active,updating his Voodoo2 xp driver from time to time (last update: 03/05/2005,curent release is beta3).best Voodoo2 xp driver so far,no more mapmem errors,mmx & 3dnow optimizations,2x2 dither matrix (improves q3 image quality drasticaly),mismatched SLI & obsidian2  support,no desktop corruption when using radeon as primary,you name it.ruuuulzzz Grin
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Reply #3 - 18.10.05 at 04:01:15
 
Thanks Falcon, guess I was unaware of all that stuff going on over there. Didn't mean to bring up any unpleasant memories or anything, just kind of wondering because I don't recall finding out exactly what happened. I came back on line after about 2 months of being gone (moved, girlfriend had a baby so-on and so forth) I used to go to those forums quit abit mainly because the croud was for the most part pretty cool with each other. Just after cleaning out my server, just brought up some decent memories that I had of the place. I didn't know any of them personally, I did talk to devo a couple of times through IM but not enough to get to know him and from the sounds of it, probably better off that way. Any way, just was curious, that's all. Thanks Falcon.    Smiley

Either way, I'm happy to be apart of this community. People are great, for the most part pretty cool with each other, and give each other just enough crap to make it fun.  Grin
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