From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: directx? for djgpp (sort of :)
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 20:13:24 +0000
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Benjamin D Chambers writes:
>What about the VBE/AF?  I haven't seen the spec's, but doesn't that
>support 3d acceleration?

Not at the moment, although it may at some point in the future. It
handles rectangle filling, lines, triangles, and blitting. Mostly I
think it will be useful for quickly clearing the framebuffer, for
scrolling it sideways, and for copying sprites from offscreen video RAM
onto the screen (unfortunately there is no way to accelerate copying
images from main memory).

Currently VBE/AF is only available for the Mach 64, but SciTech are
working on implementing it on other chipsets. I can't wait for them to
get it finished, so I can use it in Allegro :-)

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