From:	Mark Henderson <mark AT butterfield DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: *** OpenGL/3Dfx acceleration in DOS w/ DJGPP ***
Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 1998 02:16:41 +0000
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In article <34BCC2F7 DOT 13043423 AT cam DOT org>, Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org> writes
>tom burgess wrote:
>> The descriptions in the download area indicate that for DOS, only
>> Watcom is supported. For Linux, PGCC (Pentium GCC). I don't yet
>> know of any 3dfx hardware solution for DJGPP. Perhaps someday?
>Jesus!! How many times should I say it?!!!
>AFAIK Scitech MGL provides 3D acceleration through OpenGL and works in
>DJGPP. It will take advantage of any configurations you have (directX or
>OpenGL) and will probably support Dos, Windows 95 &NT, Linux etc.
>Is there anything wrong with this??
>If you know anything wrong in this idea, please tell me!

 While MGL may support DJGPP, have you ever managed to get it to use a
3dfx card? I haven't, but it's almost certainly a fault of mine rather
than the libraries.

 MGL works fine in non-accelerated mode but Allegro is a far superior
library for that. Any attempt to use the MGL_glSetOpenGLType(MGL_GL_AUTO
) routine to make it use the 3dfx card just gets me link errors (I
forget the exact message but the gist of it is that it can't find the
routine even though I'm linking all the libraries and using Scitech's
ld_dj.exe replacement linker).

 None of the example programs will use 3dfx either and also give the
same errors if I add a call to the aforementioned routine. If you've
managed to get this working could you please post details of the
procedure you used.
-- 
Mark Henderson
Wheathampstead, England

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