The lack of acceleration is a puzzle. I can understand that the remaining P4 & perhaps earlier) code may have precluded it except for the fact that FireFly is supposedly new. Having it be software only is strange. They couldn't use Direct 3D since it's Windows only but I assume Open GL is available on the Mac as well. It's probably one of those decisions we'll never know the reason for.

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