On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:21:18PM +0200, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > one usefull thing that GGI could do for people, is to run SVGAlib games,
> > in a X window. perhaps someone would be interested in writing a default
> > config for people, that could be easily installed.
>
> It's much better to port the games in question to native LibGGI.
> Svgalib is nice as a driver for graphic cards without a framebuffer
> driver, but mostly useless as an API, as it is highly non-portable
> and VGA-centric.
>
> The svgalib-wrapper works well with Quake2 (and Quake, but that is
> a non-issue now when the code is GPLed) becuause it has been
> carefully tuned for those apps, but for most other apps the SVGAlib
> API is simply to different to be emulated in a working way on top
> of LibGGI.
oh. I had heard that you could play squake, redirected to GGI, and i
guess i assumed that everything else worked there as well. nevermind :)
Corey
