> Well, I don't know about the Vodoo 4 but I think I heard that they're
> good at OpenGL. So don't throw it away that easily. The Vodoo was the
> leading 3d card series for a whole game generation.

Yeah, I got on the GL bandwagon long ago and picked up the Voodoo 4
because of it's performance in that area. Truth be told, for what I do
with my computer now a days, the Voodoo 4 is more than enough. But I'm
going to have to update soon so I can do video editing anyways so
"everything must go" but the Voodoo 4 will be recycled again for sure,
I may put it in the arcade cabinet I picked up. I plan on making it
into a emulation system, I just have to figure out how to go from VGA
to whatever the hell kind of monitor arcades use. Although I purchased
a Banshee at a flea market just for the old school purpose... But the
Voodoo 4 will live on just as my Voodoo 3 does.

> Yes, I saw it on a friend's PC and it was quite nice. Some fun into
> it. It should be available in a cheap re-release box or something like
> this now.

I just ordered it from Amazon.com for 13 bucks, plus shipping and
handeling. This is the first PC game I've bought since May Payne!
Yeah, I'm way out of the modern loop.
> Huh. Never really got into console and handheld stuff. Don't like the
> small screens and consoles...

I've really been enjoying my Gamecube, Mario Sunshine is a blast and a
real challenge. And on the plus side you don't have to start over
again when you lose all your lives, you just lose your gold coin
count. Anyways there's so many easy extra lives to earn in Sunshine
there's no reason for that to happen. The Megaman collection was also
released recently and that collects all the espidoes up to X. Great
stuff, me and a friend spent an entire weekend trying to beat all the
games non-stop. It was brutal. :D

> Anyone here using BSD or the Hurd? (Just as a question.)

I'm on Red Hat and I must admit that I hardly touch it, mostly because
I haven't had any luck getting it on my network. I bought a
VGA/keyboard/mouse switch so I can go between Windows and Linux real
smooth, but I can't find much use for Linux if it's not online.

id Software paved the way for gaming on Linux, along with ground floor
companies like Loki who admitedly weren't totally successful but still
they were the first wave and they took alot of bullets for the rest of
the troops.

> (and I still don't have any DVD burner).

You can get DVD Burners now that do +/-/++/-- and RW's for'em all too.
But I wouldn't throw to much money away because Blu-ray is close:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/04/news_6104095.html