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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Brian Osman <osmanb AT rpi DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:00:02 +0000
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Subject: Re: directx? for djgpp (sort of :)

Brian Osman wrote:

> nikki wrote:
> > 
> > it's what all the winblows fanatics like to stick their tongues out at the
> > dos users for and claim that they have hardware acceleration, therefore
> > winblows should rule the world or something ;) it's supposed to give an
> > interface to all video cards so they can be treated alike (which is no bad
> > thing of course)
> > 
> > regards,
> > nik
> > 
> > --
> 
> I'm not a windows weenie, so don't flame me, but Windows does offer more
> than
> just video card support. By abstracting the video, sound, input (mouse
> and
> keyboard) subsystems, programmers are insulated from all of those
> aspects.
> Remember when games were written that REQUIRED you to have a Creative
> Labs
> Soundblaster? Hmmm, there monopoly sure went the the way of the hula
> hoop.
> Windows did it. I own an Ensoniq Soundscape now, and no one in the
> world,
> except the guys at Ensoniq that write the layer between my card and the
> DirectX/Windows sound system need to know a thing about that card. Sure,
> windows has drawbacks, but it's really hard to claim this is one of
> them. It's
> probably the biggest benefit.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

I agree with Brian BUT!!!!!!:

  Don't get fooled, that's a very bad move from M$ to eat the market and put away 
any developement under pure DOS!. They only want to benefit to the Win95 
programs.
  From my point of view the Direct X thing is a good idea BUT, to be useful the 
implementation could be made much like the VESA thing, I mean using an abstract 
interface allowing to use the drivers under any OS, yes that's possible if you 
make an strong design. That's what's needed no Direct X. I'm talking about 
routines (perhapes in more than one level, like the OSI model in networks) to 
use the hardware resources.
  Of course you'll never get that from M$, and as this fucking idiots controls 
the market we are lost.

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