In fact, without pixel shaders, I'm not sure that having access to the zbuffer would allow us to generate zbuffer shadows in realtime
Sure it does. Using shadow volumes. What you're refering to are shadow maps, a pretty different technique. Mark.. Blitz's Z-buffer accessible, but...
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