Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:13:54 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Robert Humphris <r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com>
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        "'fighteer AT cs DOT com'" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenGL ----> Allegro
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Robert Humphris wrote:

[...]
> Come to think of it, what has OpenGL got that Allegro hasn't? Should we
> not try to implement these features
> in Allegro making it more powerful still?

That's funny.. I've never tried Allegro myself (hmm.. maybe I should) but
I _have_ used OpenGL a bit. And it DOES have tons of features that I think
would be a pity to reinvent in Allegro: motion blur, atmospheric fog, a
wide variety of rendering and shading, 3d spline surfaces..

But (as mentioned earlier) someone said Mesa-2.2 compiles cleanly on
DJGPP. Haven't tried it (yet) though. Not sure if it uses VESA or anything
like that. There's a Winblows version of Mesa too.. (in the same .tar.gz
file)

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