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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:27:52 +0100
From: Peter Allen <P DOT Allen AT pallen DOT dabsol DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: OpenGL, 3DFX, Rendition, RivaTNT
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Its a difficult task when the manufacturer won't release any specs.
I think it would be _quite_ easy to port hardware acceleration
for the voodoo series as it has source freely available, and
so mesa under linux has hardware acceleration for it.  If you
fancy writing acceleration for any other cards then look at
XFree86 V 3.9x as that is meant to build hardware acceleration
for graphics cards into the xserver.

			Peter Allen

Chris Holmes wrote:
> 
> Johan Venter wrote:
> >
> > You won't be able to in DJGPP.
> >
> > There is a free opengl implementation called mesa-gl, but it doesn't support
> > acceleration under dos.
> 
>   Really?  Hmm... I'll have to look into that.  I thought Mesa would.
> I know that the OpenGL library is distributed as a standard .lib file
> (which DJGPP can't use (grr...)), but I'm surprised that Mesa wouldn't
> support hardware acceleration in dos.
>   Is there any way to hack around DJGPP using a different linker to
> get it to use the .lib files?
>   And there is a free win32 compiler that someone posted a link to
> recently.
> 
>   Chris
> 
> --
> I know that I will never be politically correct,
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