The InsideMac page features an interview with 3dfx Macintosh director of marketing.

Speaking of 3dfx, it seems the 3DLabs guys think their clever and have come up with a "tea-buffer" which emulates the t-buffer effect which 3dfx revealed. The 3DLabs version uses up 4 times the fill rate, but at least they tried. While you are at it check out this page which Mike Murray sent in also attempting to emulate the same effect.

SharkyExtreme has posted their look at the 3dfx technology demo that was shown down in California a couple of days.

Voodoo.dk has posted a brief interview with the folks from 3dfx.

Voodoo.dk: How is opengl shaping up and will there be a good full opengl shipping with their next card ?
Keith - 3dfx: Of course. The development community wants fast/stable OpenGL drivers and therefore it is a critical part of our API support. Also, given our cross-platform support, we are working hard to be the definitive OpenGL graphics card.

Couple more of those 3dfx Technology deals to go along with the Shack article that went up last Friday. Have a look at what ZDNet has to say, HotHardware has to say, as well as the guys at Beyond3D.

The 3dfx NDA has been released and the big news? The T-Buffer technology which will be featured in that Voodoo4 card that people are just now starting to talk so much about. Also known as "Napalm" Marcus was down in California checking out the technology and has written up an article for you guys to read. I just slapped it into the Q3Test article template from earlier but I havent had a chance to change the images yet. Go ahead and read the article and I'll have the accompanying images in there within a couple of hours (It's a big download)

Basically, the T-Buffer boosts eye candy content in games. The first and foremost effect of the T-Buffer is real-time full-scene anti-aliasing. The easiest way to describe aliasing are the "jaggies" or "stair casing" that one can see on the edges of polygons. Usually these are the most apparent at lower resolutions (and/or larger displays). Increasing the resolution reduces the "artifact" somewhat, but aliasing is still noticeable even at high resolutions like 1600x1200.

You can also check out the Voodoomag, VoodooExtreme,   CombatSim, and GameSpot articles.

3dfx has announced the Vooodoo3 3500TV video card is now shipping. You can check out the full press release and go mess around at the 3dfx website. Thanks Greg.

This was mentioned yesterday evening but I felt it was interesting enough to carry over to today. According to this CBS Marketwatch article the Voodoo4 is on schedule for an October release?! Here are the comments from earlier.

Craig Shill sent along this link to an article on CBS Marketwatch with some pretty darn interesting news. It looks like the Voodoo4 card is "on schedule" for an October release? Pretty surprising that 3dfx has kept their mouth shut since that is just a couple of months away. Here is the quote:

3Dfx Interactive (TDSX: news, msgs) will release a new version of its Voodoo 3 graphics card on Friday, Chief Executive L. Gregory Ballard said Thursday. Voodoo products are largely used to speed up the flashy graphics in video games. The next big release for 3Dfx will be the Voodoo 4, which is "on schedule" for an October release, Ballard added. The products should help the San Jose company more than double sales this fiscal year. Analysts expect sales at 3Dfx to hit about $550 million in the current fiscal year, up from $220 million in fiscal 1999. 3Dfx is currently in its quiet period ahead of its fiscal second quarter release, but Ballard said the quarter is going "about as we expected."

It looks like CreativeLabs has released a new OpenGL optimized Voodoo2 driver as well as Banshee boards for you guys to mess around with in Quake3. If you happen to own a Creative board I would highly recommend checking it out, even if the id guys dont approve. :) Thanks Dr.Kimble.

A couple new Voodoo3 tweak utilities you can play with this morning. Check out the latest Voodoo3 Tweaker over at 3DFiles.com, then also have a look at the Voodoo3Pro v1.4 util as well, then you decide!

For you Voodoo3 users, a new version of the VoodooPro utility which is pretty damn useful if you are looking to tweak out your card can be grabbed from 3DFiles.com

The new 3dfx Voodoo3 NT drivers have been released by 3dfx. Thanks to Martin for the heads up. The new drivers are highly recommended featuring some new toys for you power users to play with.

I'm getting all this email saying that there are new NT V3 drivers, even though I thought the new stuff came out yesterday along with the 9x drivers. Oh well, driver updates are supposed to do you good anyway.

3dfx has now officially released the new Voodoo3 drivers featuring "new image quality options to its utilities". Window9x users can grab them here, and NT users should click here. Thanks [qWp]RoqueFort.

3dfx is offering a $30 rebate now on Voodoo3 purchases. Thanks Rico

Canopus has released some new Pure3D II drivers. Thanks Aliengrey and Inqbus

The guys at Voodoo.net send word of a new version of the popular Voodoo3 tweaker utility. You can grab a copy from Billy over at VE.

TaeJKim sends word that TigerInvestor conducted a 1.5hour interview with Scott Sellers of 3dfx and have posted the entire transcript of the conversation for you guys to read (If you have some time)