From: Minh Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,mail-list.linux.ggi Subject: (fwd) MGL 4.0 just got better; it is now free with source code! Date: 6 Oct 1997 07:35:45 +0200 Organization: Linköping University, Sweden Lines: 173 Sender: news AT newsy DOT ifm DOT liu DOT se Approved: newsy.ifm.liu.se mail injector. 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X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Comments: Authenticated sender is Message-ID: <199710021155 DOT HAA00851 AT delorie DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mime-Autoconverted: from Quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id XAA25541 X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 20:52:09 GMT Dj-Gateway: from mailing list djgpp AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk To: mesa AT IQM DOT Unicamp DOT BR, OPENGL-GAMEDEV-L AT fatcity DOT com, gamedev AT panorama DOT poly DOT edu, djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Priority: normal X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com X-Nntp-Posting-Host: delorie.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 146 Xref: vic.news.telstra.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:23830 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, +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com | | Director of Engineering | Phone: (916) 894 8400 | | SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (916) 894 9069 | | 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com | | Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- end of forwarded message --