The Rendition platform was chosen because it offered OpenGL support which — at the time — seemed to offer a middle ground for developers. 3dfx Interactive - Wikipedia After buying myself a Voodoo card, I can clearly remember getting the MiniGL driver, adding 3Dfx Maxi Gamer 3D the the Quake folder and launching the game. Viewing the game for the first time running in hardware accelerated mode was simply stunning. The difference between hardware and software rendering was so huge[…]
