On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > > I've played Doom on SGI Irix FWIW. Doom was everywhere. > > I remember that! Computers with the hottest graphics hardware on > the planet, and Doom still did all rendering in software and just > blitted bitmaps to X. :) > Didn't Doom use OpenGL as its engine? Id is one of the reasons DirectX didn't wipe out OpenGL. > > > That mainstream OS is probably the iPhone OS, not MacOSX. > > I wonder, if Droid takes off like iPhone did, will that bring more > interest to Linux? > > You mean Android right? Droid is one model of phone using the Android platform. I've read of fragmentation in the Android market. If developers can't depend on a consistant sound/graphics/accelerometer, they're not going to develop for it. How many games are on WINCE/Windows Mobile which has a similar problem?
_______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
