[unios] Re: games

[Pieter Dumon]

From: Pieter Dumon <Pieter.Dumon@rug.ac.be>

> 
> From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@ican.net>
> 
> > And for DirectX... I've heard it's kinda crap... no wonder. Of course we'd
> > make better than that. If we ever get the opportunity.
> 
> DirectX is crap...  It's a terribly complicated/undocumented (both go hand in
> hand) system of using surfaces, and modifying their properties... OpenGL (for
> example), is a much better API... better laid out, easier to understand, well
> documented.... and not from MS.   But I think we may develop our own API for that
> kind of thing (built into the hardware abstracts).
> 

First, you must distinguish DirectX on win95/98 and on NT. The
architectures are fundamentally different, so DirectX is too.

I'm certainly not saying that DirectX is good, but I doubt your statement
that it is undocumented. How could all game developpers otherwise use it 
with lots of success?

Also, I don't think it is a good idea to implement another standard for
direct I/O. That would be playing Microsoft...

Pieter

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