From: nitehawk91 AT aol DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: AllegroX project? Date: 15 Apr 1997 15:44:10 GMT Organization: AOL Bertelsmann Online GmbH & Co. KG http://www.germany.aol.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: <19970415154400.LAA10961@ladder01.news.aol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder01.news.aol.com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Hi there ! >1) The DirectX standard is evolving and controlled by microsoft. >Presumably, the actual driver interface won't change much, but still, >the next version of Windows might change things. Yeah. It's controlled, and that's what we don't want, right ? But if there is an - lets say - win gcc sometime, we can make our own win multimedia standard : AllegroX (or whatever you want to call it) We have this already (and I consider Allegro being a standard for graphics and sound for djgpp programmers) for Dos. And *we* can get it for Win, too, if we want. The whole djgpp project/community shows that *we* can do anything we want to, without being controlled or have to pay lots of money. That makes the whole thing so great. In fact, I love DJGPP an all its tools ! I'm sure, this won't stop... I know this doesn't relay to the original post, but I think it's a nice thought. BTW : When someone is doing a commercial product(e.g. Westwood with C&C2) that's using DirectX, do they have to pay M$ to get programming info or to get the rights to use DX ? Just wondering... Regards, Matthias *Artificial intelligence is better than natural stupidity