From: frenchc AT cadvision DOT com (Calvin French)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro and DirectX
Date: 4 Jul 1997 06:25:38 GMT
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In article <199707022148 DOT QAA05483 AT sendit DOT sendit DOT NoDak DOT edu>, 
adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu says...
>
>Nobody has really responded to the idea I had...  I don't know if it's
>possible because I don't know the intricacies of DirectX, but could you
>possibly make a GFX_DIRECTX driver for Allegro?  I think that this would
>be a best case scenario for everybody...  If GFX_AUTODETECT detected it,
>it would provide hardware acceleration for a lot of cards and great
>Windows compatibility (yank yank)...  If not, it would just continue as
>normal...  Please let me know what you think... Shawn?  Is this possible?
>
>atomly [pHiXx/VorteX] phixx AT usa DOT net

Sorry man, this has been beat to death. Bottom line, it's possible (well 
not just possible, since really it's possible to do just about anything, 
but I mean more like reasonable) to make a DirectX version of Allegro for 
Windows on Windows compilers, but that kind of autodetection and interface 
with windows is a bit hard to do with djgpp. At least, that's what everybody 
told me last time I really made a push for this...

- Calvin -