News ATI drivers official AMD confirmation

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Sep 6 21:49:18 PDT 2007


On Friday 07 September 2007, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>Twas brillig at 00:21:34 07.09.2007 UTC-04 when Gene Heskett did gyre and
> gimble:
>
> GH> Basically it means they expect us all to go out and buy the latest
> whizbang GH> cards.  Any cards we now own are looking for first class
> paddles at the GH> Shit Creek Store, and will be till hell freezes over.
>
>Well, AMD has no intention to support older hardware, but which manufacturer
> has one? In other hand, nothing prevents further development of drivers for
> r100/r200/r300 except the lack of interest in it.

I ran an R-280 based card for 3 years, waiting on a driver that could do tux 
racer.  Never happened.

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