Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:03:56 +0100 (BST) From: Graham Sturmy To: Orlando Andico Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DirectX 2 SDK In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just to clarify. DirectX is Microsofts answer to running games under windows 95. It allows people who write games for it access to sound/screen/3d accellerator cards/network via a standard interface to them so they don't have to write drivers for different cards (and can worry about the game more). Ie Its nothing to do with X windows. Just that the X mean its give direct support for lots of different cards. What it does mean of course is that whatever 3d graphics accelerator card you get, you know it will be supported by the latest games (assuming they are win95 games and the company gives you drivers for direct3d (the 3d part of the directx package), which unless they are stupid and naive, they almost certainly will. Graham Sturmy. University of Manchester