From:	nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: directx? for djgpp (sort of :)
Date:	21 Feb 1997 10:38:22 GMT
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> Why does everyone wish to support the bloody Microsoft stuff?

cos we need money to live and that's where the money is currently?
doesn't mean we're forsaking dos though :)

> I tested the so called acceleration with my Matrox Mystique and 
> a 3D game. I can tell you, the games under DOS (Wing Commander III, IV)
> are still much faster, without "Special Microsoft Standarts ".

its nothing to do with microslop standards. it's something that video card
manufactureres have been building into their video cards for ages now.
it's called hardware acceleration and allows you to do stuff like drawing
boxes and lines and other such things incredibly quickly. you'd be a fool
not to want to take advantage of such a feature. microsoft had to use it
because windows was so slow they needed every bit of speed they could get
out of it, but if dos programs could use it just as well then we'd have
much better and faster games yet.

regards,
nik


> 
> Michi

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Graham Tootell           
nikki AT gameboutique DOT com  

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