S3 Trio64/V2 is non 3d right?

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No, BMAX is 3D presented as 2D. I have tweaked the modules so that it's possible for BMAX to render on a non-3d card. When BMAX is in the "non-3d" state it actually renders faster to 2D cards than it does to 3D cards. So... I detect the capabilities of the card and if 3D is not supported I switch to software. The software renderer is still DX7 but it's 3D Emulation, it's quite slow but when implemented with DirtyRects it's actually very fast - certainly fast enough for most puzzle type games. Since it's using the DX7 API you get all the rotation, scaling, blending included :)