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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@netmagic.net>
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Subject: Re: Texture Mapping and the phantom playstation II [Was: Re: GPU Packets...]
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:05:24 -0800
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Toby Sargeant wrote:
	[...]
> <speculation>
> 
> If sony ever releases the playstation successor that they're not working on,
> and if they travel down the backwards compatible path that the installed base
> of playstation software owners would no doubt demand, won't this mean we'll
> never see perspective correct texture mapping, or z buffering?  There are a
	[...]
> Toby.

I would hope that the new GTE/GPU would have the above-mentioned
improvements.
I would also hope that for the backwards compatibility they would simply
have the current library calls as wrappers around the new calls with a
couple
of flags set to disable perspective correction (among other things).

<speculation><ponder>
  At least, that's how I would do it.  :P
</ponder></speculation>

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