Having a Glide wrapper is actually kind of neat from the developers perspective because it is basically a "Done" API with a fixed software base. I don't think anyone is making new Glide code nowadays.

I say this because in the past there were projects to provide things like DirectX compatibility to Vulkan/OpenGL bY just doing a 1-to-1 API interpretation. That's all well and good until you realize that a lot of games use the API in weird ways and that there are loads of driver side adaptions for Nvidia/AMD/Intel that exist outside the DX space. Early progress is no indicator of future progress.

But with Glide, no chance Turok 2 or Incoming is getting an update. You can account for any oddities that came up along the way.

that's actually pretty great. afaik dgvoodoo isn't really working on linux for whatever reason. I'm also bit struggling to think of glide-only games I'd even care to play (edit: or didn't already have modern remasters with all the bells & whistles)... need for speed 2:se maybe?

https://github.com/lutris/GlideVK apparently exists too, but before today I had not even heard of it.