From: "Stefan Viljoen" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Does DJGPP support Voodoo(3dfx) Cards or anyother Accelerator Cards? Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:34:14 +0300 Organization: The South African Internet Exchange Lines: 44 Message-ID: <7ugmjf$dct$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net> References: <380CFA41 AT MailAndNews DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc36-01-p24.nt.saix.net X-Trace: ctb-nnrp2.saix.net 940301743 13725 155.239.194.24 (19 Oct 1999 02:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT saix DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Oct 1999 02:55:43 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: Amoediun/Trepcoze Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 9:09 AM Subject: Does DJGPP support Voodoo(3dfx) Cards or anyother Accelerator Cards? > Does DJGPP support Voodoo(3dfx) Cards or anyother Accelerator Cards? This is not neccessarily a DJGPP question as I understand it - you just need to write the correct control info out to the correct ports or some such on the card and it should perform its 3D magic. This is the same as asking whether Visual C will support a certain type of 3D accellerator - natively it does not - just drop in the correct DirectX driver (?) and it will support any card under the sun. Same with DJGPP - write the correct ports (or however you control a Voodoo - I have never programmed an accelerator before) and it will support any card you can think of. If you mean native graphics support DJGPP has none (like any C compiler) - as far as I know the C standard does not specify graphics. What it does have of course is methods to move memory around,call interrupts etc. and using THAT you can do graphics - same as with any C compiler (for DOS or Dos32 - Windows is another story I think?) There is a great freeware / swapware library for graphics available for DJGPP: http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/Allegro/ called Allegro - check it out! It just might be what you are looking for. I do not know if there are any WIP versions of Allegro that does support 3DFX chipsets - anyway you'll find out at the URL above. Hope the stuff I spewed is accurate...:) This message courtesy of RylanNet rylan AT intekom DOT co DOT za http://home.intekom.com/rylan/ -- StarWars for ever!.