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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 09:40:27 +0800
From: Leath Muller <leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au>
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To: "A. Kunigelis" <algikun AT santaka DOT sc-uni DOT ktu DOT lt>
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Subject: Re: SVGALIB stuff
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> BTW, isn't anybody thinking of porting Allegro to Linux? Have you heard of
> the GGI project? General Graphics Interface, that is. When GGI is done and
> Linus accepts it, Linux will have a graphics driver in the kernel, and the
> coolest thing, you will be able to use *any* acceleration or such feature
> of your video card. Given the simple and effective OSS (open sound system)
> driver present in Linux (and supportinf a lot of sound cards), Linux will
> become IDEAL for games and demos, which make most of stuff DJGPP is used
> for IMO. You should all switch to Linux one day, folks! Not that I'm
> saying DJGPP isn't great, of course.. :) :)

Shift to Linux? Ummm...and some people say that DJGPP is hard to set up
for the beginner... ;)

Leathal.