On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, John Fortin wrote:
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> Marcus Sundberg wrote:
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> > James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I had a interesting discussion on the possiblility of having a Direct X
> > > on linux with John Carmack. Well it appears Mircosoft will sue anyone that
> > > tries that. So I talked to him about Mesa-GGI and how Direct X support was
> > > added to libGGI. So to the person that wrote the Direct X interface. Do
> > > you think you have a enough of a bridge between Direct X and GGI to allow
> > > Mesa-GGI programs to run on top of Direct X completely?
> >
> > Mesa-GGI requires nothing more than a DirectBuffer, which I assume
> > the DirectX target will have. Mesa-GGI needs to be fixed to use
> > the LibGGI API correctly before it will work on targets where you
> > must acquire DirectBuffers though, something which I assume the
> > DirectX target will require. Right John?
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> I'm torn here. The current version I am using does not need to acquire
> the direct buffer. However, it uses features available only on win
> 95/98/W2K. It will not work on NT4, as NT4 only supports directx v3.
You must install a Service Pack (4 or newer) for NT4. Then you have
support for directx v5 and higher...
>
> I think that I will end up with a separate NT4 version which will not be
> as flexible as the Win 95/98/2K version. Eventually, the NT4 version
> would go away as it is replaces by Win2K.
>
> John
>
Christoph Egger
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