From: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie McCullough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh II.
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:40:42 GMT
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On Thu, 22 May 1997 09:36:59 -0400, Ross Litscher <Litscher DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu>
wrote:

>This only has to do with your comment about DirectX being a joke.
>Although I have not programmed with it yet (have you? just curious about
>where your judgement comes from), I have seen some decent games done
>with it, showing that it can run games quickly through windows. I'll end
>this now, since this isn't the DirectX newsgroup.

DirectX is actually a very good system (then again I think Windows is
a good system).  At any rate it can deliver performance but alot of
stuff I've seen for has been slow because the programmer thinks "Hey
I'm using DirectX so I can just write this all in C...yada... yada...
yada" and they don't really think about program efficiency which I
think, from personal experience, DOS programmers do.  I still think
DOS is a better OS for games.  Sure it's a bit hackish at times.  The
whole DPMI system seems like a big hack to me.  But it works and it's
fun to mess around with.  Windows doesn't allow you much messing
around room.


Lonnie McCullough
lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu