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[News] DirectX 10 Could Come to GNU/Linux

Hacked DX10 for Windows appears 

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| A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to
| have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that
| they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice
| about that operating system.
| 
| A year in, the Alky Project has gone live under the cover of a
| company Falling Leaf Systems. Members of its Sapling Program will
| be able to get the wrappers for DirectX10 applications and run
| them not just on DX10 hardware under Windows XP, but with some
| DX9 hardware as well. 
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39095

There was another COLA post about this last week. DX10 is used as a teaser to
sell Vista, but this can actually work just fine under XP. Another example
of encouraging/forcing the customer to unnecessarily upgrade (and get more
'goodies' like DRM).


Related:

Valve questions Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming

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| Half-Life 2 developer Valve thinks that Microsoft's current
| "Games for Windows" marketing push is a cynical ploy to sell
| more copies of Windows Vista, rather than a genuine effort to
| invigorate the PC gaming market.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/valve_questions_microsofts_commitment/

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