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Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
>
> > > I'm new to this list, and wanted to ask if there's a reason
> > > that the joystickdriver for win32 is not DirectX based -
> >
> > Yes, backward compatibility with DirectX 3.0, needed to support
> > Windows NT4.
>
> even in a driver ?
> people who don't have a version > 3 would have to select another driver,
> but this shouldn't prevent people who have a newser version to use that.
> am i missing something ?
> (i have a strange feeling of deja vu ....)
>
I Totally agree with you but if it is to be
included in Allegro I think it would need to
be selected at compile time. (to bad the windows
version doesn't use a configure script :)
Otherwise It might as well be an add on.
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Tom Fjellstrom
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