From: Robert Vasquez <digital DOT fx AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: directx? for djgpp (sort of :)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 21:26:59 -0500
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> its nothing to do with microslop standards. it's something that video 
> manufactureres have been building into their video cards for ages now.
> it's called hardware acceleration and allows you to do stuff like 
> boxes and lines and other such things incredibly quickly. you'd be a 
> not to want to take advantage of such a feature. microsoft had to use 
> because windows was so slow they needed every bit of speed they could 
> out of it, but if dos programs could use it just as well then we'd 
> much better and faster games yet.

There are DOS programs that can use special 3d hardware functions, but 
they only work with a certain card, or certain cards with the same chip. 
One of my friends had a 3d Blaster, and the games with it were awesome, 
but they only worked on a 3d blaster. How would you go about getting a 
sdk or something from, say, Diamond or Matrox so you can do accelerated 
DOS games??

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               Rob Vasquez
               Digital Fx '97
               
   email:   digital DOT fx AT worldnet DOT att DOT net