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QD3D Gunned Down (10/10/97)
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Mac the Knife dishes the dirt that QuickDraw 3D may be following in the footsteps of OpenDoc and other cool Apple technologies that didn't quite make it. Apparently QD3D is being segmented, with selected chunks getting mixed in to the Quicktime stew, and the rest stuffed down the virtual garbage disposal.

AtAT pauses to reflect on the folly of trying to foist an alternate standard onto a skeptical developer public when an accepted standard already exists. We've been waiting for years for Apple to voice support for the OpenGL 3D programming libraries; perhaps these rumors of QD3D's demise are not bad news, but rather the foreshadowing of an annoucement that would make Apple a real player in the 3D world. Gotta look on the bright side, ya know?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/10/97 episode:

October 10, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 70: Rhapsody in View (10/10/97)   Better late than never. (Late? Who's Late?) MacWEEK reports that Apple will take the wraps off the first developer release of Rhapsody for PowerPC next Tuesday. The Intel version should ship by Halloween...

  • 72: Anuff Already (10/10/97)   And this week's "Bitter Little Troll" award goes to Wired Magazine's Joey Anuff. Joey wrote a story on Apple's "Think Different" campaign that incidentally claimed that any Powermac on a T1 line would "get its clock cleaned by a 486 with a 28.8 modem."...

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