__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:01 \__
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> Ray Ingles <sorceror@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On 2006-07-12, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>| Graphics hardware may not have the same extensive driver support in
>>>| Linux as it does in Windows, but it sure has gotten better. Are we
>>>| beginning to witness the evolution of Linux as a gaming platform?
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>> The main thing they complained about with Linux drivers was how hard it
>> was to enable overclocking. For their target market that might be
>> important, but for me that has no attraction at all. I want stable first
>> and formost, after that I'll worry about fast.
>>
>> Linux is actually an excellent platform to develop games for. OpenGL is
>> nice for graphics, and SDL really *is* a Simple, Direct media Layer.
>> What with console releases being important, the engines are
>> cross-platform *anyway*, so a Linux version isn't particularly difficult
>> to make. We're seeing it more and more now.
Sadly, there are some sabotage attempts.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/openglvista
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| In the current implementation (as of 2005-09-22) of the OpenGL
| graphics library in Windows Vista - a soon to be released new version of
| the Microsoft Windows operating system, OpenGL is not a stand alone
| library. Instead it functions as a wrapper around DirectX, and is
| frozen to the vanilla version of OpenGL 1.4.
|
| This means that OpenGL applications in Windows Vista will, most
| likely, suffer from severe performance loss, that, when an OpenGL driver
| is loaded, the Windows operating system will have odd behaviours and
| that future versions of OpenGL will not affect the Windows Vista
| platform. This would result in less developers actively supporting
| OpenGL, and as a result, less applications written which are easy to
| port to another platform or easy to maintain.
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> It would make huge sense to start in SDL, I think. There's something
> rather amusing about using the caca library for rendering a film :-)
*LOL* I remember the first time that I saw somebody mention libcaca, the
context being bad names of Linux applications or, as in this case, a
library.
Best wishes,
Roy
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