[unios] Re: games

[Pat Wendorf]

From: Pat Wendorf <beholder@ican.net>

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

The architecture might be different, but  the programming style is exactly the same.

> 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?

It "IS" documented... but not well... I've only used tried developing older ones (2 and
3), I hear they've improved it greatly in 6... but 5 was supposed to be just as bad...
Developers just had to struggle through it (the sparse docs), until enough of them got
good enough to write good books on the subject... I was stating that MS didn't have
good docs.  The only point I was trying to make was that we need to not repeat that
mistake... the whole OS must have good documentation.

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

No, that's not what I meant either... The hardware abstracts should have enough
features, and enough low level access to be able to handle what game developers want.
Not a special API....

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