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Re: [News] Open and Free Alternative to DirectX

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> OpenKODE offers open alternative to DirectX
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The Khronos Group is launching an open set of royalty-free,
> | cross-platform APIs aimed at standardizing the way native
> | applications deliver media, games, and graphical user interfaces
> | on mobile devices. OpenKODE, due early next year, combines
> | several pre-existing open audio/visual APIs with an OS
> | abstraction layer.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2485072825.html
>
> Less lockins in sight.
>
>
> Related:
>
> ATI offers DirectX - OpenGL converter
>

The same ATI who cant even write a decent OGL driver for their own video
cards?

> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has released HLSL2GLSL, an open

"That's a mouthful Roy".

> | source application designed to help programmers convert graphics code
> | optimized for Windows' DirectX 9 Application Programming Interface (API)
> | to OpenGL, which is used on the Mac. Binaries for Mac OS X and Windows
> | are available for download.
> `----

Another nail in the coffin of CEDEGA? Another set back for "Linux gaming
NOW"? Yup.

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