Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:05:18 -0500 From: dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu (John Fremlin) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9705140745.ZM8286@dopey> Lines: 27 Precedence: bulk "Nicholas R LeRoy" typed: >Personally, I think the idea of a 3D library for OD would be a huge score. >Make it an *open* standard. Some people are trying to do something similar >for Linux, and there's debate as to what should / shouldn't be in the kernel. While having an OpenDOS graphics API is a great idea, maybe some standard for graphics APIs could be worked out with Microsoft (or Sun, or the Linux people, etc.) so that OpenDOS could use a "Standard". (Who's going to make software that only runs on OpenDOS ;-) There is a X-Windows standard (which I have never used and know nothing about), could that be used by OpenDOS? I'm sure that there are several graphics standards floating around for non-PC computers; maybe one of these could be ported/adapted for OpenDOS. (Remember, keep the graphics stuff out of the kernel distribution zip. New versions of most programs take more disk space than their previous version. OpenDOS must not be like that.) -- John Fremlin (dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu) (fremdh AT essex DOT ac DOT uk) PS. I no longer have email; don't reply to me in person.