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KevSteele:
There's some good clarifcation on the history of Ultracade here:

http://www.retrogames.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showpost.pl?Board=retrogen&Number=81492

To quote:

"Brief history of Ultracade: 3dfx's spinoff Quantum3D developed and sold it for a while, then dumped it off to HyperWare, Inc., which was an embedded-PC company run by David Foley. HyperWare marketed it for a while (using their own PCs as the hardware platform) and then went Chapter 11. Foley eventually decided to take another swing and formed UltraCade, Inc., which is the current company marketing/maintaining UC). Quantum3D is still in business, BTW, but they've moved *way* upmarket."

I remember Quantum3D as being the company that developed the Obsidian, a quad-3dfx chip graphics card (I think that's right - been a while).

Anyway, Ultracade Inc. is the current company run by David Foley, and it doesn't look like there's any current connection to Quantum3D (which is still alive and kicking).

Kevin

Crazy Cooter:
Judging by his resume, Foley was working at Quantum 3D when that sale took place.  Looks like he took it and ran with it.  Might have been to cover his tracks.  I still don't understand why they would only apply for a patent for part of the software and not the whole package.  There's something hiding in that there ultracade. :police:

IntruderAlert:
Here's the web archive from back in November '02 when they went belly up
http://web.archive.org/web/20021128033703/http://ultracade.com/

quarterback:

--- Quote from: KevSteele on March 04, 2005, 11:38:49 pm ---Anyway, Ultracade Inc. is the current company run by David Foley, and it doesn't look like there's any current connection to Quantum3D (which is still alive and kicking).
--- End quote ---

Except they're still listed as the registrant of ultracade.com

IntruderAlert:
you can take a look at the history of hyperware through the internet archive
HERE

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