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From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com>
Subject: MGL 4.0 just got better; it is now free with source code!
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Hi All,
SCITECH MGL IS NOW FREE WITH SOURCE CODE!!
SciTech Software is pleased to announce the final release of the
SciTech MGL has just been uploaded to our public ftp site, and things
have changed quite significantly since the prior MGL 3.0 release. The
biggest difference is a change in the distribution and licensing
policies for the SciTech MGL. SciTech MGL 4.0 is now freely available
on the internet with full source code!
After thinking long and hard about the development of the MGL
libraries, we realised there were lots and lots of things that could
be done with the MGL that SciTech Software simply does not have the
bandwidth or desire to develop internally. This includes ports to
other operating systems like the Macintosh, OS/2, Rhapsody and Linux,
support for portrait display modes, printing support, ehanced blitting
support and much more. In an effort to make SciTech MGL better for
everyone, we decided to release the full source code under a new
Public License to the internet development community at large. It is
our hope that developers on the internet will seize this opportunity
to begin developing with a solid, commerical graphics library and
expand it beyond the horizons that we had originally envisioned.
If you are interested in helping with the development of the SciTech
MGL libraries, we have created a new newsgroup on our local news
server dedicated to this purpose with the name
'scitech.mgl.developer'. Our local newsgroup server is located at
'news.scitechsoft.com', so log onto this newsgroup to check out the
latest developments with the MGL. We have put together a document
that describes all of the cool and wonderul additions and enhancements
that we have thought would make the MGL a better product in a file
called PROJECTS.TXT in the \devel directory on our ftp site. Take a
look at this file to get an idea of the different projects that you
could work on. Eventually we will update this file with lists of
developers working on different projects within the MGL source code.
SciTech Software will of course continue to maintain and develop the
MGL libraries, since the libraries are used extensively by SciTech
Software for other internal development projects. We also provide a
number end user support options for customers who require email or
telephone support for the MGL (see SciTech MGL Support Options in
the readme file for more information).
WHERE TO GET IT?
You can download the MGL 4.0 final release archives from:
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/devel
The directory contains a number of different installation archives
that you can download depending on whether you want the source code
and which compiler you are using.
MGLB40.EXE
Base install archive. This archive contains all of the MGL
sample program source code, online help versions of the MGL
Programmer's Guide and MGL Reference Manual and the Makefile
Utilities. You must download and install this archive before you
can install any of the other arhives.
MGLF40.EXE
Font and sample program data files install archive. This
archive contains the complete set of font files for the SciTech
MGL, along with complete copies of the bitmap data files and 3D
object files for the MGL sample programs. You should probably
download and install this, but these files rarely change between
releases so you dont need to re-download this file when a new
release is made.
MGLS40.EXE
Source code install archive. This archive contains the
complete source code to the SciTech MGL. You don't need to
download this archive in order to be able to use the SciTech MGL,
however you will need to download this if you plan to re-compile
any of the libraries. If you have a compiler that is not directly
supported by our pre-built libraries, you will have to download
this archive and compile the MGL with your compiler.
MD40BC50.EXE
Borland C++ 5.0 for DOS object code install archive, with all
necessary libraries and header files.
MD40WC11.EXE
Watcom C++ 11.0 for DOS object code install archive, with all
necessary libraries and header files.
MD40DJ20.EXE
DJGPP 2.01 for DOS object code install archive, with all necessary
libraries and header files.
MW40BC50.EXE
Borland C++ 5.0 for Win32 object code install archive, with all
necessary libraries and header files.
MW40VC50.EXE
Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 for Win32 object code install archive,
with all necessary libraries and header files.
MW40WC11.EXE
Watcon C++ 11.0 for Win32 object code install archive, with all
necessary libraries and header files.
MW40DP20.EXE
Borland Delphi 2.0 for Win32 object code install archive, with all
necessary libraries, header files and runtime DLL's.
WHAT'S NEW?
If you are using SciTech MGL 3.0, here are some of the features that
we have added for the 4.0 release of this product (in no particular
order):
7 Full source code now available for free!
7 Added support for fullscreen OpenGL rendering with hardware
acceleration
7 Added support for Mesa with full source code
7 Added fullscreen MGL port of GLUT OpenGL Utility Library
7 Added support for VBE/Core 3.0 and VBE/AF 2.0 draft standards
7 Added support for stereo LC shutter glasses (requires hardware
stereo support)
7 Added support for hardware triple buffering
7 Added support for double buffered mouse cursors
7 Added support for drawing to fullscreen WinDirect surfaces with
GDI
7 Improved Alt-Tab switching for WinDirect
7 Automatically disables AutoPlay while in fullscreen modes on
95/NT
7 Added support for DirectDraw acceleration functions
7 Vastly improved set of sample programs for MGL and OpenGL
features
7 Improved performance for many low level rasterisation functions
7 Addition of Borland Delphi 2.0 support
7 Reduced the number of runtime DLL's for WinDirect
7 Created C only version for portability
7 DJGPP 2.01 support updated with new OBJ2BFD conversion utility
Regards,
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